Assessment of averaging spatially correlated noise for 3-D radial imaging

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1381-1390

  Stobbe, Robert W ^a   Beaulieu, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Correlated noise; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); noise power spectral density; radial imaging; sodium; twisted projection imaging

Indexed keywords

CORRELATED NOISE; ERROR BOUND; IMAGE NOISE; K-SPACE; K-SPACE SAMPLING; LOW-FREQUENCY NOISE; NOISE CHARACTERISTIC; NOISE CORRELATION; NOISE POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; OVER SAMPLING; PROJECTION IMAGING; RADIAL EVOLUTION; RADIAL IMAGING; REGION OF INTEREST; SAMPLING DENSITIES; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SIMULATED NOISE; SODIUM MRI; SPATIALLY CORRELATED NOISE; SQUARE ROOTS; STANDARD DEVIATION;

POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; RESONANCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SODIUM; SPECTRAL DENSITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; WHITE NOISE;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

SODIUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SODIUM;

EID: 79959807398     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2011.2116799     Document Type: Article

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