Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 9 , Pages 1361-1373 , November 2010

Magnetic resonance image enhancement using stochastic resonance in Fourier domain

Received 23 March 2009 ,Revised 18 January 2010 ,Accepted 25 June 2010.

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 Conflict of interest: The authors declare that they do not have any financial or commercial stake in the matter.

☆☆ This work is supported by grants from the Ministry of Defense, Government of India, New Delhi (Defense Research and Development Organization: Life Sciences Research Board).

PII: S0730-725X(10)00171-2

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.06.014

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 9 , Pages 1361-1373 , November 2010