A new single acquisition, two-image difference method for determining MR image SNR

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 662-671

  Steckner, Michael C ^a   Liu, Bo ^b   Ying, Leslie ^c  

^a Toshiba Medical Research Institute USA Inc   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

Author keywords

Image quality; MRI; SNR

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ACQUISITION TIME; DIRECTION FIELDS; IMAGE DIFFERENCE; NOISE QUANTIFICATION; PHASED ARRAY COILS; RECONSTRUCTION ANALYSIS; REGION OF INTEREST; STANDARD DEVIATION;

IMAGE ACQUISITION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 59249086236     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3036118     Document Type: Article

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