Robust mapping of the myelin water fraction in the presence of noise: Synergic combination of anisotropic diffusion filter and spatially regularized nonnegative least squares algorithm

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 189-195

  Hwang, Dosik ^a   Chung, Hyunjin ^a   Nam, Yoonho ^a   Du, Yiping P ^b   Jang, Ung ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

anisotropic diffusion filter; multi exponential analysis; myelin content; myelin water fraction; nonnegative least squares; regularization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTER; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL FILTERING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELIN WATER FRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPATIALLY REGULARIZED NON NEGATIVE LEAST SQUARE ALGORITHM; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYELIN SHEATH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WATER;

EID: 79959585862     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22586     Document Type: Article

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