Noise correction on Rician distributed data for fibre orientation estimators
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Fiber Optic Distributed Sensors for High-resolution Temperature Field Mapping
Published on: November 7, 2016
Rafael Alonso Clarke1, Paola Scifo, Giovanna Rizzo
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, 20132 Milan, Italy.
Abstract:
New complex tissue microstructure estimators have been presented recently in order to elucidate white matter fibre orientations. Since these algorithms are based on the diffusion-weighted signal profile, the estimations are affected by noise artefacts. The proven robustness of these methods cannot counteract distortions since the statistical Rician behavior has not been taken into account. In this study, two techniques to counteract the noise distortions are presented to improve the fibre orientation estimations. Simulations and in vivo experiments show an improvement in the angular resolution and convergence of the results. One of these strategies represents a good compromise between computational cost and result improvements.
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