Magnetic resonance image enhancement using stochastic resonance in Fourier domain

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1361-1373

  Rallabandi, V P Subramanyam ^a   Roy, Prasun Kumar ^a  

^a NATIONAL BRAIN RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Brownian motion; Image enhancement; K Space; MRI; Noise; Stochastic resonance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; NEUROIMAGING; NOISE REDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STOCHASTIC RESONANCE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 77958157230     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.06.014     Document Type: Article

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