Noise reduction in MR angiography with nonlinear anisotropic filtering

To evaluate three‐dimensional nonlinear anisotropic filtering in suppressing image noise in high spatial resolution magnetic resonance angiograms (MRA) acquired with hybrid undersampled projection reconstruction and phase contrast vastly undersampled isotropic projection reconstruction (PC‐VIPR).

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