Table 9 The patient experiment CNR of two regions are shown (largest values are shown in bold). ACER demonstrates an average increase of 11.2 dB for CNR 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 | 37.0 | 25.3 | 34.5 | 25.8 | 22.1 |
2 | 31.3 | 26.2 | 30.7 | 25.7 | 23.0 |
3 | 36.1 | 37.7 | 35.3 | 29.6 | 22.6 |
4 | 30.6 | 34.6 | 33.3 | 26.0 | 18.4 |
5 | 29.1 | 28.4 | 27.6 | 21.7 | 17.2 |
6 | 30.9 | 27.9 | 29.5 | 22.7 | 16.1 |
7 | 33.6 | 32.7 | 32.9 | 25.2 | 21.8 |
8 | 35.6 | 39.2 | 37.0 | 30.3 | 22.5 |
9 | 34.6 | 36.0 | 35.7 | 28.5 | 20.7 |
10 | 33.0 | 36.2 | 35.1 | 26.7 | 18.8 |
11 | 36.1 | 41.0 | 39.2 | 34.0 | 26.8 |
12 | 26.8 | 23.8 | 20.7 | 20.4 | 13.5 |
13 | 24.8 | 24.9 | 15.9 | 19.0 | 10.0 |
14 | 22.3 | 24.5 | 20.3 | 21.1 | 13.4 |
15 | 26.6 | 24.6 | 19.4 | 21.4 | 13.8 |
16 | 24.7 | 24.9 | 21.2 | 20.9 | 13.5 |
17 | 24.0 | 25.0 | 19.3 | 20.7 | 12.6 |
18 | 17.9 | 11.7 | 15.5 | 13.6 | 11.4 |
19 | 18.3 | 12.8 | 15.7 | 15.1 | 12.2 |
20 | 10.6 | 9.5 | 11.5 | 10.6 | 9.3 |
Avg./Std. | 28.2/6.9 | 27.3/8.6 | 26.5/8.5 | 22.9/5.6 | 17.0/4.9 |