Noise measurement from magnitude MRI using local estimates of variance and skewness

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 16, 2010, Pages

  Rajan, Jeny ^a   Poot, Dirk ^a   Juntu, Jaber ^a   Sijbers, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYOCARDIUM; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 78149354869     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/16/N02     Document Type: Article

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