Estimation and application of spatially variable noise fields in diffusion tensor imaging

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 741-751

  Landman, Bennett A ^a   Bazin, Pierre Louis ^b   Prince, Jerry L ^a,c  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; DTI; MRI; Noise; Noise field

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67349085168     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.01.001     Document Type: Article

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