MR-DTI RICIAN DENOISING

In this work we tackle the problem of Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) Rician denoising to enhance Diffusion Tensor Image (DTI) reconstruction. In a variational framework based on the Total Variation operator, the model of the Rician noise leads to the resolution of a highly nonlinear equation associated to the energy minimization problem. An iterative algorithm is proposed and validated on synthetic images. Finally the application to real Diffusion Weighted Images (DWI) is considered.

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Main Authors: MARTIN,ADRIAN, GARAMENDI,JUAN F., SCHIAVI,EMANUELE
Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2013
Online Access:http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0012-73532013000600003
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Summary:In this work we tackle the problem of Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) Rician denoising to enhance Diffusion Tensor Image (DTI) reconstruction. In a variational framework based on the Total Variation operator, the model of the Rician noise leads to the resolution of a highly nonlinear equation associated to the energy minimization problem. An iterative algorithm is proposed and validated on synthetic images. Finally the application to real Diffusion Weighted Images (DWI) is considered.