Magnetic resonance noise measurements and signal-quantization effects at very low noise levels

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1477-1487

  Dietrich, Olaf ^a   Raya, José G ^a   Reiser, Maximilian F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Maximum likelihood; Signal quantization; Signal to noise ratio; Statistical noise distribution

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DATA VISUALIZATION; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETISM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; QUANTIZATION (SIGNAL); RESONANCE; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT;

CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD APPROACHES; NOISE DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; QUANTIZATION ERRORS; RELATIVE FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL QUANTIZATION; STATISTICAL NOISE;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 57149095647     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21784     Document Type: Article

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