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Purpose: Parallel imaging and compressed sensing reconstructions of large MRI datasets often have a prohibitive computational cost that bottlenecks clinical deployment, especially for 3D non-Cartesian acquisitions. One common approach is to…
To reduce scanning time and/or improve spatial/temporal resolution in some MRI applications, parallel MRI (pMRI) acquisition techniques with multiple coils acquisition have emerged since the early 1990s as powerful 3D imaging methods that…
Simultaneous multi-slice (SMS) imaging accelerates MRI data acquisition by exciting multiple image slices simultaneously. Overlapping slices are then separated using a mathematical model. Several parameters used in SMS reconstruction impact…
Parallel imaging with linear predictability takes advantage of information present in multiple receive coils to accurately reconstruct the image with fewer samples. Commonly used algorithms based on linear predictability include GRAPPA and…
The compressed sensing (CS) framework leverages the sparsity of MR images to reconstruct from undersampled acquisitions. CS reconstructions involve one or more regularization parameters that weigh sparsity in transform domains against…
Parallel imaging is ubiquitous in MRI, enabling diverse applications such as ultra-high-resolution functional and quantitative imaging with greater temporal resolution or reduced scan times respectively. Successful unfolding is contingent…
High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential in clinical diagnosis. However, its long acquisition time remains a critical issue. Parallel imaging (PI) is a common approach to reduce acquisition time by periodically skipping…
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) acquisitions require extensive scan times, limiting patient throughput and increasing susceptibility to motion artifacts. Accelerated parallel MRI techniques reduce acquisition time by undersampling k-space…
Parallel imaging is a commonly used technique to accelerate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data acquisition. Mathematically, parallel MRI reconstruction can be formulated as an inverse problem relating the sparsely sampled k-space…
Multi-contrast MRI sequences allow for the acquisition of images with varying tissue contrast within a single scan. The resulting multi-contrast images can be used to extract quantitative information on tissue microstructure. To make such…
With the advent of multi-coil imaging and compressed sensing, a number of model based reconstruction algorithms have been created. They incorporate a multitude of different regularization functions based on physics, observed phenomenology,…
Parallel magnetic resonance imaging has served as an effective and widely adopted technique for accelerating scans. The advent of sparse sampling offers aggressive acceleration, allowing flexible sampling and better reconstruction.…
A statistical approach for combination of channel phases is developed for optimizing the Contrast-to-Noise Ratio (CNR) in Susceptibility Weighted Images (SWI) acquired using autocalibrating partially parallel techniques. The unwrapped phase…
In parallel magnetic resonance imaging (pMRI), to find a joint solution for the image and coil sensitivity functions is a nonlinear and nonconvex problem. A class of algorithms reconstruct sensitivity encoded images of the coils first…
The main disadvantage of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) are its long scan times and, in consequence, its sensitivity to motion. Exploiting the complementary information from multiple receive coils, parallel imaging is able to recover…
We propose a new fast algorithm for simultaneous recovery of the coil sensitivities and of the magnetization image from incomplete Fourier measurements in parallel MRI. Our approach is based on a parameter model for the coil sensitivities…
Real-time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) poses unique challenges related to the speed of data acquisition and to the degree of undersampling necessary to achieve this speed. This Master's thesis introduces and evaluates two pre-processing…
We examine the problem of selecting a small set of linear measurements for reconstructing high-dimensional signals. Well-established methods for optimizing such measurements include principal component analysis (PCA), independent component…
The Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) processing chain starts with a critical acquisition stage that provides raw data for reconstruction of images for medical diagnosis. This flow usually includes a near-lossless data compression stage that…
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a potent diagnostic tool, but suffers from long examination times. To accelerate the process, modern MRI machines typically utilize multiple coils that acquire sub-sampled data in parallel. Data-driven…