Improvement of the SNR and resolution of susceptibility-weighted venography by model-based multi-echo denoising

NeuroImage

Volumn 70, Issue , 2013, Pages 308-316

  Jang, Ung ^a   Nam, Yoonho ^a   Kim, Dong Hyun ^a   Hwang, Dosik ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Model based denoising; Multi echo MR data; Relaxation; Susceptibility weighted imaging; T2; Venography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN VEIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; WHITE MATTER;

ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEUROIMAGING; PHLEBOGRAPHY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84872736441     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.12.067     Document Type: Article

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