Noise estimation in single- and multiple-coil magnetic resonance data based on statistical models

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1397-1409

  Aja Fernández, Santiago ^a   Tristán Vega, Antonio ^a   Alberola López, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

MRI; Multiple coil system; Noise estimation; Noncentral chi distribution; Rician model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARIANCE;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 70449525321     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.05.025     Document Type: Article

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