Effective noise estimation and filtering from correlated multiple-coil MR data

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 272-285

  Aja Fernández, Santiago ^a   Brion, Véronique ^b   Tristán Vega, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b DIF   (France)

Author keywords

Correlated coils; Denoising; Multiple coil; Noise estimation; Noncentral chi

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; IN VIVO STUDY; MULTIPLE COIL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CALIBRATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 84872676713     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2012.07.006     Document Type: Article

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