A popular SNR-boosting method in MRI is denoising based on principal component analysis with automated rank estimation by exploiting the Marchenko-Pastur distribution of noise singular values (MP-PCA). MP-PCA operates by reshaping data-patches into matrices to discriminate signal from noise using random matrix theory. Here, we generalize MP-PCA to exploit tensor-structured data arising in, e.g., multi-contrast or multicoil acquisitions, without introducing new assumptions. As proof of concept, we demonstrate a substantial increase in denoising performance in a multi-TE DKI dataset, in particular for small sliding windows. This is beneficial especially in cases of rapidly varying contrast or spatially varying noise.
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