Nonlocal maximum likelihood estimation method for denoising multiple-coil magnetic resonance images

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1512-1518

  Rajan, Jeny ^a   Veraart, Jelle ^a   Van Audekerke, Johan ^a   Verhoye, Marleen ^a   Sijbers, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Denoising; MRI; NLML; Noise; Non central chi distribution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE COIL NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NOISE REDUCTION; NONLOCAL MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84868661584     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2012.04.021     Document Type: Article

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