A simple method for rectified noise floor suppression: Phase-corrected real data reconstruction with application to diffusion-weighted imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 418-429

  Prah, Douglas E ^a   Paulson, Eric S ^a   Nencka, Andrew S ^a   Schmainda, Kathleen M ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; DWI; Image reconstruction; MRI; Phase correction; Stretched exponential

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIFFUSION; FLOORS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

DIFFUSION PARAMETERS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGES; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTING; DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED MRI; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; PHASE CORRECTIONS; STRETCHED EXPONENTIAL;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ALCOHOL; WATER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 77955111675     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22407     Document Type: Article

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