Abstract #3810

Local Noise Measurement in Real-Time Cardiac Cine MRI - A Random Matrix Approach

Yu Ding¹, Yiu-cho Chung², Orlando P. Simonetti¹

¹The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA; ²Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Columbus, OH, USA

We propose a novel technique based the random matrix theory to generate a stack of noise-only images in a dynamic MR image series. Accurate local noise can be assessed in these noise-only images. This new method is validated using real-time cardiac MR cine images with TSENSE acceleration factor 3, 4 and 5.