Sequence-based acoustic noise reduction of clinical MRI scans

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1104-1109

  Heismann, Björn ^a,b   Ott, Martin ^c   Grodzki, David ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c Research Center Magnetic Resonance Bavaria   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic noise reduction; Algorithmic sequence optimization; Patient comfort; Quiet MRI; Spline interpolation

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERPOLATION; NOISE ABATEMENT;

ACOUSTIC NOISE LEVELS; ALGORITHMIC OPTIMIZATION; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONVERSION ALGORITHM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGE QUALITIES; PATIENT COMFORT; SEQUENCE OPTIMIZATION; SPLINE INTERPOLATION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; ELECTRIC CURRENT; GRADIENT ECHO; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; NOISE REDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOLOGIST; SOUND PRESSURE; TURBO SPIN ECHO; WHITE MATTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; NOISE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NOISE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84923126482     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25229     Document Type: Article

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