Multi-contrast magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is an advanced technology used in medical diagnosis, but the long acquisition process can lead to patient discomfort and limit its broader application. Shortening acquisition time by undersampling k-space data introduces noticeable aliasing artifacts. To address this, we propose a method that reconstructs multi-contrast MR images from zero-filled data by utilizing a fully-sampled auxiliary contrast MR image as a prior to learn an adjacency complementary graph.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Recent Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) perform low-error reconstruction in fast Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Most of them convolve the image with kernels and successfully explore the local information. Nonetheless, the non-local image information, which is embedded among image patches relatively far from each other, may be lost due to the limitation of the receptive field of the convolution kernel.
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September 2022
Magnetic resonance imaging serves as an essential tool for clinical diagnosis, however, suffers from a long acquisition time. Sparse sampling effectively saves this time but images need to be faithfully reconstructed from undersampled data. Among the existing reconstruction methods, the structured low-rank methods have advantages in robustness to the sampling patterns and lower error.
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December 2021
Background: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an effective auxiliary diagnostic method in clinical medicine, but it has always suffered from the problem of long acquisition time. Compressed sensing and parallel imaging are two common techniques to accelerate MRI reconstruction. Recently, deep learning provides a new direction for MRI, while most of them require a large number of data pairs for training.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Multi-contrast images in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provide abundant contrast information reflecting the characteristics of the internal tissues of human bodies, and thus have been widely utilized in clinical diagnosis. However, long acquisition time limits the application of multi-contrast MRI. One efficient way to accelerate data acquisition is to under-sample the k-space data and then reconstruct images with sparsity constraint.
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November 2017
Accelerating the imaging speed without sacrificing image structures plays an important role in magnetic resonance imaging. Under-sampling the k-space data and reconstructing the image with sparsity constraint is one efficient way to reduce the data acquisition time. However, achieving high acceleration factor is challenging since image structures may be lost or blurred when the acquired information is not sufficient.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCompressed sensing magnetic resonance imaging has shown great capacity for accelerating magnetic resonance imaging if an image can be sparsely represented. How the image is sparsified seriously affects its reconstruction quality. In the present study, a graph-based redundant wavelet transform is introduced to sparsely represent magnetic resonance images in iterative image reconstructions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCompressed sensing MRI (CS-MRI) is a promising technology to accelerate magnetic resonance imaging. Both improving the image quality and reducing the computation time are important for this technology. Recently, a patch-based directional wavelet (PBDW) has been applied in CS-MRI to improve edge reconstruction.
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