INTRODUCTION: Due to heart motion, cardiac MRI is made difficult and image acquisitions have to be synchronized with heart activity to suppress cardiac motion artifacts. Electrocardiogram (ECG) is therefore the state-of-the-art signal [1], each MRI acquisition being launched after a fixed delay following a QRS complex detection. The complex MRI environment highly distorts ECG signals, due to th...

A novel frequency-domain technique for image blocking artifact detection and reduction is presented in this paper. The algorithm first detects the regions of the image which present visible blocking artifacts. This detection is performed in the frequency domain and uses the estimated relative quantization error calculated when the discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients are modeled by a La...

PURPOSE The purpose of this work was to determine the optimal imaging parameters for minimization of metallic susceptibility artifacts during gradient echo (GRE) imaging. METHOD We performed GRE imaging of titanium screws in a nickel-doped agarose gel phantom, systematically varying several parameters to characterize and quantify susceptibility artifacts. RESULTS The greatest reduction in a...

Introduction. Myoclonus status epilepticus is independently associated with poor outcome in coma patients after cardiac arrest. Determining if myoclonus is of cortical origin on continuous electroencephalography (CEEG) can be difficult secondary to the muscle artifact obscuring the underlying CEEG. The use of a neuromuscular blocker can be useful in these cases. Methods. Retrospective review of...

This study compared reconstruction algorithms [filtered back projection (FBP) and simultaneous iterative reconstruction technique (SIRT)] with respect to radiation doses and image quality and suggested the possibility of decreasing the exposure dose in digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT). These two existing algorithms were implemented using a DBT system and experimentally evaluated using contras...

introduction in ct imaging, metallic implants inside the tissues cause metal artifact that reduce the quality of image for diagnosis. in order to reduce the effect of this artifact, a new method with more appropriate results has been presented in this research work. materials and methods the presented method comprised of following steps: a) image enhancement and metal areas extraction, b) sinog...

The enhanced functional sensitivity offered by ultra-high field imaging may significantly benefit simultaneous EEG-fMRI studies, but the concurrent increases in artifact contamination can strongly compromise EEG data quality. In the present study, we focus on EEG artifacts created by head motion in the static B0 field. A novel approach for motion artifact detection is proposed, based on a simpl...

We investigate the robustness of PRNU-based camera identification in cases where the test images have been passed through common image processing operations. A specific question we aim to answer is how camera identification can be circumvented by an nontechnical user, applying only standard and/or freely available software. We study denoising, recompression, out-of-camera demosaicing. We measur...

We compared metal artifact in X-ray digital tomosynthesis (DT) and modern computed tomography (CT) reconstruction to improve the image quality. We compared the images of a prosthetic phantom (titanium) and a contrast-detail phantom obtained by DT using conventional filtered backprojection (FBP), metal artifact reduction (MAR) processing, and simultaneous iterative reconstruction technique (SIRT...