Practical signal-to-noise ratio quantification for sensitivity encoding: Application to coronary MR angiography

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1330-1340

  Yu, Jing ^a,b   Agarwal, Harsh ^b   Stuber, Matthias ^b,c   Schär, Michael ^b,d,e  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

coronary MRA; image noise; parallel imaging; phased array coils; SNR measurement

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIUM; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79958281292     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22571     Document Type: Article

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