SNR enhancement of highly-accelerated real-time cardiac MRI acquisitions based on non-local means algorithm

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 598-608

  Naegel, Benoît ^a,c   Cernicanu, Alexandru ^b   Hyacinthe, Jean Noël ^b   Tognolini, Maurizio ^a   Vallée, Jean Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Cardiac imaging; Denoising; Non local means; Real time MRI; Registration

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC IMAGING; DENOISING; NON-LOCAL MEANS; REAL-TIME MRI; REGISTRATION;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; IMAGE QUALITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; NOISE REDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70349107141     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2009.05.006     Document Type: Article

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