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A scan-specific unsupervised method for parallel MRI reconstruction via implicit neural representation

Image and Video Processing 2022-10-20 v1 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Machine Learning

Abstract

Parallel imaging is a widely-used technique to accelerate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, current methods still perform poorly in reconstructing artifact-free MRI images from highly undersampled k-space data. Recently, implicit neural representation (INR) has emerged as a new deep learning paradigm for learning the internal continuity of an object. In this study, we adopted INR to parallel MRI reconstruction. The MRI image was modeled as a continuous function of spatial coordinates. This function was parameterized by a neural network and learned directly from the measured k-space itself without additional fully sampled high-quality training data. Benefitting from the powerful continuous representations provided by INR, the proposed method outperforms existing methods by suppressing the aliasing artifacts and noise, especially at higher acceleration rates and smaller sizes of the auto-calibration signals. The high-quality results and scanning specificity make the proposed method hold the potential for further accelerating the data acquisition of parallel MRI.

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@article{arxiv.2210.10439,
  title  = {A scan-specific unsupervised method for parallel MRI reconstruction via implicit neural representation},
  author = {Ruimin Feng and Qing Wu and Yuyao Zhang and Hongjiang Wei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.10439},
  year   = {2022}
}

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