Computationally rapid method of estimating signal-to-noise ratio for phased array image reconstructions

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1192-1197

  Wiens, Curtis N ^a   Kisch, Shawn J ^b   Willig Onwuachi, Jacob D ^b,c   McKenzie, Charles A ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c GRINNELL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

g factor; parallel imaging; pseudo replica; SNR

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

CALCULATION TECHNIQUES; COMPUTATION TIME; G FACTORS; NATIONAL ELECTRICAL MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATIONS; NOISE AMPLIFICATION; NOISE ESTIMATION; PARALLEL IMAGING; PSEUDO-REPLICA;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 80052964159     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22893     Document Type: Article

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