Zhipeng Cao1,
Christopher T. Sica2, Wei Luo2, Sukhoon Oh3,
Christopher Michael Collins3
1Radiology,
Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States; 2Radiology,
The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States; 3Radiology,
New York University, New York City, NY, United States
A method for generating simulated MR images (starting with knowledge of only pulse sequence, receiver bandwidth, and distributions of sample properties and field distributions through space) with realistic levels of noise is described and demonstrated with comparison to experimentally-measured SNR.