Improving the evaluation of cardiac function in rats at 7T with denoising filters: a comparison study

Improving the evaluation of cardiac function in rats at 7T with denoising filters: a comparison study

Abstract Background We investigate the use of different denoising filters on low signal-to-noise ratio cardiac images of the rat heart acquired with a birdcage volume coil at 7T. Accuracy and variability of cardiac function parameters were measured from manual segmentation of rat heart images with a...

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Main Authors: Benoit Tricot, Maxime Descoteaux, Matthieu Dumont, Frederic Chagnon, Luc Tremblay, André Carpentier, Olivier Lesur, Martin Lepage, Alain Lalande
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-12-01
Series:BMC Medical Imaging
Subjects:
Small animal
Non-local means filtering
Cine-MRI
Denoising
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12880-017-0236-2

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