Effects of image reconstruction on fiber orientation mapping from multichannel diffusion MRI: Reducing the noise floor using SENSE

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1682-1689

  Sotiropoulos, S N ^a   Moeller, S ^b,d   Jbabdi, S ^a   Xu, J ^b   Andersson, J L ^a   Auerbach, E J ^b,d   Yacoub, E ^b   Feinberg, D ^c   Setsompop, K ^d,e   Wald, L L ^e   Behrens, T E J ^a,f   Ugurbil, K ^b   Lenglet, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Advanced MRI Technologies   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

magnitude image; noncentral ; Rician; SENSE; sum of squares; tractography

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIFFUSION; FLOORS; IMAGE DENOISING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

MAGNITUDE IMAGE; RICIAN; SENSE; SUM OF SQUARES; TRACTOGRAPHY;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; NOISE REDUCTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

MAGNITUDE IMAGE; NONCENTRAL-Χ; RICIAN; SENSE; SUM OF SQUARES; TRACTOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84888001651     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24623     Document Type: Article

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