Bilateral filtering of magnetic resonance phase images

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1023-1029

  McPhee, Kelly C ^a   Denk, Christian ^a,b   Al Rekabi, Zeinab ^a,c   Rauscher, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bilateral filter; Brain; Magnetic susceptibility; Phase imaging

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BILATERAL FILTRATION; BRAIN REGION; FILTRATION; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEMBRANE FILTER; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TISSUE HOMOGENATE;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 80051685336     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2011.03.009     Document Type: Article

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