Cramér-Rao bound for Intravoxel Incoherent Motion Diffusion Weighted Imaging fitting

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 511-514

  Zhang, Qinwei ^a   Wang, Yi Xiang ^a   Ma, Heather Ting ^b   Yuan, Jing ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ESTIMATION PRECISION; ESTIMATION UNCERTAINTIES; INTRAVOXEL INCOHERENT MOTIONS; MUTUAL DEPENDENCIES; PRECISION OF PARAMETERS; PSEUDO DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR);

DIFFUSION; ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84886525752     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2013.6609549     Document Type: Conference Paper

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