title: Potential degradation in image quality due to selective averaging of phase-encoding lines in Fourier transform MRI.
abstract: The properties of the image noise for selective averaging of phase-encoding lines have been investigated. For a given acquisition time, selective averaging results in a signal-to-noise ratio penalty compared to averaging all lines equally. In addition, selective averaging yields a non uniform distribution of noise characteristics in spatial frequency space, which can result in a change in the texture of the image noise.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville 22908.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Mugler
mesh_terms: D005583:Fourier Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008961:Models, Structural