Noise filtering methods in MRI

Advanced Image Processing in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 169-185

  Landini, L ^a   Lombardi, M ^b   Benassi, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

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