Table 4 Phantom SNR analysis of a selected prostate region (in dB with highest measures in bold). ACER proved to have the greatest SNR improvement in the prostate regions. ANLM showed an inaccurate noise variance estimate which led to less significant SNR improvement
From: Monte Carlo-based noise compensation in coil intensity corrected endorectal MRI
Case | ACER | ROVST | LMMSE | ANLM | UC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
D W I b=0 | 27.0 | 26.8 | 26.7 | 26.2 | 26.1 |
D W I b=1000 | 27.3 | 27.5 | 26.9 | 25.9 | 25.7 |
T2 | 27.2 | 26.7 | 26.9 | 26.7 | 26.7 |
Avg./Std. | 27.2/0.15 | 27.0/0.43 | 26.8/0.12 | 26.3/0.40 | 26.2/0.50 |