Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 27, Issue 10 , Pages 1397-1409 , December 2009

Noise estimation in single- and multiple-coil magnetic resonance data based on statistical models

Received 31 March 2009 ,Revised 16 April 2009 ,Accepted 10 May 2009.

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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