The Relative Impact of Ghosting and Noise on the Perceived Quality of MR Images

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 3087-3098

  Liu, Hantao ^a   Koonen, Jos ^b   Fuderer, Miha ^b   Heynderickx, Ingrid ^c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ghosting; Human visual system; MR; Noise; Perceived image quality

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

CLINICAL APPLICATION; FREQUENCY SPECTRA; GHOSTING; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM; NOISE; PERCEIVED QUALITY; RELATIVE IMPACT; SUBJECTIVE EXPERIMENTS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

EID: 84975299375     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2016.2561406     Document Type: Article

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