Table 4.

The performance of the proposed method across seven subjects. The error bars are standard deviations.

		SNR	Blurring	Contrast
Original	Constant	19.9±3.5	16.0±0.9	1.7±0.1
Hann	Constant	17.4±3.1*	12.6±0.7	1.9±0.1
	Direct	14.2±2.3	12.4±0.7	1.8±0.1
	Optimal	18.1±3.6*	12.7±07	1.8±0.1
	50%SAR	17.7±3.9*	12.5±0.7	1.7±0.1
Fermi	Constant	7.5±1.3	8.7±0.5	2.1±0.1
	Direct	8.2±1.4	9.0±0.5	1.9±0.1
	Optimal	10.5±2.5*+	9.0±0.5	1.9±0.2
	50%SAR	9.9±2.7*+	8.9±0.6	1.9±0.2

^*indicates significantly higher SNR (p<0.05) compared with the ‘Direct’.

⁺indicates significantly higher SNR (p<0.05) compared with the corrected signal from the ‘Constant’.