Implications of resolution and noise for in vivo micro-MRI of trabecular bone

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5584-5594

  Li, Charles Q ^a   Magland, Jeremy F ^a   Rajapakse, Chamith S ^a   Guo, X Edward ^b   Zhang, X Henry ^b   Vasilic, Branimir ^a   Wehrli, Felix W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Noise and resolution; Osteodegeneration; Trabecular bone imaging

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE RESOLUTION; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; FOURIER RECONSTRUCTION; HUMAN TRABECULAR BONE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE MICROIMAGING; OSTEODEGENERATION; PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRABECULAR BONES;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; DISEASE COURSE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VIVO STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOLYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TRABECULAR BONE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 56749158485     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3005598     Document Type: Article

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