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Multiple input multiple output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) systems have been proposed in the recent past for providing high data-rate services over wireless channels. When combined with space time coding it provides the advantages of space-time coding and OFDM, resulting in a spectrally efficient wideband communication system. However, MIMO OFDM systems suffer with the problem of inherent high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) due to the intersymbol interference between the subcarriers. In order to obtain optimal PAPR reduction using the partial transmitted sequence (PTS), the total search for the number of subblocks and the rotation factors must be accomplished. As the number of subblocks and rotation factors increases, PAPR reduction improves. The number of calculation increases as the number of subblocks increases, such that complexity increases exponentially and the process delay occurs simultaneously. In this paper, a generalised framework for PAPR reduction for MIMO OFDM systems based on modified PTS using forward error-correcting codes (FECs) such as Turbo codes and Golay codes are employed. PAPR reduction is jointly optimised in both the real and imaginary part by use of fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm in the modified PTS which can be utilized for finding the optimum phase weighting factors, and can achieve the lower PAPR and computational complexity of MIMO OFDM systems. The simulation results show that the combined FEC with modified PTS technique significantly provides better PAPR reduction with reduced computational complexity compared to original PTS technique in the MIMOOFDM systems.