Reduction of errors in ASL cerebral perfusion and arterial transit time maps using image de-noising

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 715-724

  Wells, Jack A ^a,b   Thomas, David L ^a,b   King, Martin D ^b   Connelly, Alan ^c,d   Lythgoe, Mark F ^a,b   Calamante, Fernando ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arterial spin labeling; ASL; CBF; De noising; MRI; Transit time

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NOISE ABATEMENT; RANDOM ERRORS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTERS; ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW; DE-NOISING; NOISE REDUCTION METHODS; REDUCTION OF ERRORS; STRUCTURE DEGRADATION; TRANSIT TIME;

IMAGE DENOISING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN PERFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RAT; SPIN LABELING;

EID: 77956352792     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22319     Document Type: Article

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