Noise estimation in MR GRAPPA reconstructed data

Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1815-1818

  Aja Fernández, Santiago ^a   Vegas Sánchez Ferrero, Gonzalo ^a   Tristán Vega, Antonio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

GRAPPA; Magnetic Resonance; Noise estimation; parallel imaging

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION RATES; GRAPPA; K-SPACE; NOISE ESTIMATION; PARALLEL IMAGING; PARALLEL IMAGING METHOD; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS; SPATIAL PATTERNS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MEDICAL IMAGING;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 80055059613     PISSN: 19457928     EISSN: 19458452     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2011.5872759     Document Type: Conference Paper

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