About the background distribution in MR data: A local variance study

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 739-752

  Aja Fernández, Santiago ^a   Vegas Sánchez Ferrero, Gonzalo ^a   Tristán Vega, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Background; MRI models; Noise estimation; Sample local variance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VALIDITY; VARIANCE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 77952951425     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.02.006     Document Type: Article

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