MAgnitude and PHase Thresholding (MAPHT) of noisy complex-valued magnetic resonance images

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1271-1280

  Rowe, Daniel B ^a   Haacke, E Mark ^b,c,d  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b MRI Institute for Biomedical Research   (United States)

^c Wayne State University   (United States)

^d HARPER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex; Magnitude; Phase; SWI; Threshold

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 70349835785     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.05.008     Document Type: Article

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