Minimum Field Strength Simulator for Proton Density Weighted MRI

@article{Wu2016MinimumFS,
  title={Minimum Field Strength Simulator for Proton Density Weighted MRI},
  author={Ziyue Wu and Weiyi Chen and Krishna S. Nayak},
  journal={PLoS ONE},
  year={2016},
  volume={11}
}
Objective To develop and evaluate a framework for simulating low-field proton-density weighted MRI acquisitions based on high-field acquisitions, which could be used to predict the minimum B0 field strength requirements for MRI techniques. This framework would be particularly useful in the evaluation of de-noising and constrained reconstruction techniques. Materials and Methods Given MRI raw data, lower field MRI acquisitions can be simulated based on the signal and noise scaling with field… 
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