Incorporation of Rician noise in the analysis of biexponential transverse relaxation in cartilage using a multiple gradient echo sequence at 3 and 7 Tesla

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 352-366

  Bouhrara, Mustapha ^a   Reiter, David A ^a   Celik, Hasan ^a   Bonny, Jean Marie ^b   Lukas, Vanessa ^a   Fishbein, Kenneth W ^a   Spencer, Richard G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UR370 QuaPA   (France)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Biexponential mapping; Cartilage; Cram r rao lower bound; Precision; T2 relaxation

Indexed keywords

CARTILAGE; MAMMALS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RELAXATION TIME;

ACCURACY; ACCURACY AND PRECISION; BIEXPONENTIAL; GRADIENT ECHO SEQUENCES; LOWER BOUNDS; PRECISION; TRANSVERSE RELAXATION; TRANSVERSE RELAXATION TIME;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BIEXPONENTIAL TRANSVERSE RELAXATION; DISPERSION; EX VIVO STUDY; IMAGING PHANTOM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIPLE GRADIENT ECHO SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NOSE CARTILAGE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RELAXATION TIME; RICIAN NOISE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BOVINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION STUDY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NASAL CARTILAGES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84919874658     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25111     Document Type: Article

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