Improving SNR in Susceptibility Weighted Imaging by a NLM-based denoising scheme

IST 2014 - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 346-350

  Borrelli, P ^a   Tedeschi, E ^a   Cocozza, S ^a   Russo, C ^a   Salvatore, M ^a   Palma, G ^b   Comerci, M ^a   Alfano, B ^a   Haacke, E M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c MRI Institute for Biomedical Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RESTORATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DENOISING FILTERS; NOISE REMOVAL ALGORITHM; NON LOCAL MEANS (NLM); PHASE INFORMATION; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; VISUAL ASSESSMENTS; VOXEL INTENSITIES;

IMAGE DENOISING;

EID: 84916633994     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IST.2014.6958502     Document Type: Conference Paper

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