Random noise in diffusion tensor imaging, its destructive impact and some corrections

Mathematics and Visualization

Volumn 0, Issue , 2006, Pages 107-119

  Hahn, Klaus R ^a   Prigarin, Sergej ^b   Heim, Susanne ^c   Hasan, Khader ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS AND MATHEMATICAL GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NOISE POLLUTION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TENSORS;

DE-NOISING; HIGH NOISE LEVELS; IN-VIVO; NOISE IMPACT; NOISE PROPAGATION; RANDOM NOISE; STOCHASTIC-MODELING; STRUCTURE NOISE; VIVO STUDIES;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 84884956013     PISSN: 16123786     EISSN: 2197666X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-31272-2_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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