A method to assess spatially variant noise in dynamic MR image series

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 782-789

  Ding, Yu ^a   Chung, Yiu Cho ^b   Simonetti, Orlando P ^a,c,d  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Siemens Healthcare USA   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic MRI; Karhunen Loeve transform; Marcenko Pastur distribution; Noise measurement; Random matrix theory

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; BRAIN MAPPING; COVARIANCE MATRIX; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM VARIABLES;

DYNAMIC MRI; KARHUNEN LOEVE TRANSFORM (KLT); MARCENKO-PASTUR DISTRIBUTION; NOISE MEASUREMENTS; RANDOM MATRIX THEORY;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 77649100980     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22258     Document Type: Article

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