A simple noise correction scheme for diffusional kurtosis imaging

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 124-133

  Glenn, G Russell ^a   Tabesh, Ali ^a   Jensen, Jens H ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Diffusion; Kurtosis; Noise; Phantom; Rician

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DIFFUSIONAL KURTOSIS IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGING PHANTOM; IN VIVO STUDY; NOISE CORRECTION SCHEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WEIGHTED LINEAR LEAST SQUARE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84925295201     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2014.08.028     Document Type: Article

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