Table 8 The patient experiment SNR of a background region are shown (largest values are shown in bold). ACER demonstrates an average increase of 11.7 dB for SNR over the uncorrected (UC) slice which has no noise suppression applied
From: Monte Carlo-based noise compensation in coil intensity corrected endorectal MRI
Case | ACER | ROVST | LMMSE | ANLM | UC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 34.2 | 22.6 | 31.5 | 23.1 | 19.4 |
2 | 26.8 | 21.7 | 25.7 | 21.1 | 18.5 |
3 | 33.1 | 34.7 | 32.2 | 26.6 | 19.6 |
4 | 32.3 | 36.3 | 34.8 | 27.7 | 20.2 |
5 | 34.1 | 33.4 | 32.5 | 26.7 | 22.1 |
6 | 34.8 | 31.6 | 33.1 | 26.5 | 19.9 |
7 | 34.1 | 33.2 | 33.3 | 25.7 | 22.3 |
8 | 32.6 | 36.2 | 33.9 | 27.3 | 19.5 |
9 | 33.6 | 35.0 | 34.5 | 27.4 | 19.6 |
10 | 34.0 | 37.0 | 35.7 | 27.6 | 19.6 |
11 | 33.0 | 27.9 | 25.4 | 21.0 | 13.8 |
12 | 26.5 | 23.5 | 20.3 | 20.1 | 13.2 |
13 | 28.1 | 28.2 | 19.0 | 22.3 | 13.3 |
14 | 22.8 | 24.9 | 20.4 | 21.4 | 13.7 |
15 | 25.9 | 23.9 | 18.4 | 20.7 | 13.2 |
16 | 25.4 | 25.6 | 21.5 | 21.5 | 14.1 |
17 | 24.8 | 25.7 | 19.6 | 21.4 | 13.4 |
18 | 19.2 | 13.1 | 16.8 | 15.0 | 12.8 |
19 | 18.7 | 13.3 | 16.0 | 15.5 | 12.6 |
20 | 12.9 | 11.9 | 13.8 | 13.0 | 11.7 |
Avg./Std. | 28.3/6.1 | 27.0/7.6 | 25.9/7.3 | 22.6/4.3 | 16.6/3.5 |