SNR dependence of optimal parameters for apparent diffusion coefficient measurements

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 424-437

  Saritas, Emine U ^a,b   Lee, Jin H ^c   Nishimura, Dwight G ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apparent diffusion coefficient; b value; diffusion weighted imaging; optimal parameters; tex Notation

Indexed keywords

APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; B-VALUE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; OPTIMAL PARAMETER; TEX NOTATION;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FADING (RADIO); GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); RADIOLOGY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SURFACE DIFFUSION;

OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 79551599128     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2010.2084583     Document Type: Article

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