Denoising of arterial spin labeling data: Wavelet-domain filtering compared with gaussian smoothing

Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 125-137

  Bibic, Adnan ^a   Knutsson, Linda ^a   Ståhlberg, Freddy ^a   Wirestam, Ronnie ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Arterial spin labeling; Cerebral blood flow; Denoising; Filtering; Magnetic resonance imaging; Perfusion; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SCINTIGRAPHY; SPIN LABELING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROCIRCULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PERFUSION IMAGING; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 77956395565     PISSN: 09685243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10334-010-0209-8     Document Type: Article

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