Improving signal-to-noise ratio in susceptibility weighted imaging: A novel multicomponent non-local approach

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Borrelli, Pasquale ^a,d   Palma, Giuseppe ^b   Tedeschi, Enrico ^a   Cocozza, Sirio ^a   Comerci, Marco ^b   Alfano, Bruno ^b   Haacke, E Mark ^c   Salvatore, Marco ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c MRI Institute for Biomedical Research   (United States)

^d IRCCS SDN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NOISE REDUCTION; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84935011615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126835     Document Type: Article

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