Variational denoising of diffusion weighted MRI

Inverse Problems and Imaging

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 625-648

  McGraw, Tim ^a   Vemuri, Baba ^b   Özarslan, Evren ^c   Chen, Yunmei ^b   Mareci, Thomas ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Denoising; Diffusion MRI

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649119588     PISSN: 19308337     EISSN: 19308345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/ipi.2009.3.625     Document Type: Article

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