Noise-adaptive nonlinear diffusion filtering of MR images with spatially varying noise levels

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 798-806

  Samsonov, Alexei A ^a   Johnson, Chris R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion filtering; Inhomogeneity correction; Magnetic resonance imaging; Sensitivity encoding (SENSE)

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); IMAGE CODING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; SIGNAL ENCODING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTERING; ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTERS; IMAGE SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO (SNR); INHOMOGENEITY CORRECTION; INTENSITY INHOMOGENEITY; MR IMAGE ENHANCEMENTS; NONLINEAR DIFFUSION FILTERING; SENSITIVITY ENCODING;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FILTER; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NOISE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHANTOM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

EID: 4744371607     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20207     Document Type: Article

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