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Magnetic resonance (MR) fingerprinting is a new quantitative imaging paradigm, which simultaneously acquires multiple MR tissue parameter maps in a single experiment. In this paper, we present an estimation-theoretic framework to perform…
Magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) is one novel fast quantitative imaging framework for simultaneous quantification of multiple parameters with pseudo-randomized acquisition patterns. The accuracy of the resulting multi-parameters is…
Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI) is concerned with estimating (in physical units) values of magnetic and tissue parameters e.g., relaxation times $T_1$, $T_2$, or proton density $\rho$. Recently in [Ma et al., Nature, 2013],…
Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) is a method to extract quantitative tissue properties such as T1 and T2 relaxation rates from arbitrary pulse sequences using conventional magnetic resonance imaging hardware. MRF pulse sequences have…
Magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) enables fast and multiparametric MR imaging. Despite fast acquisition, the state-of-the-art reconstruction of MRF based on dictionary matching is slow and lacks scalability. To overcome these…
Mathematical models are becoming increasingly important in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), as they provide a mechanistic approach for making a link between tissue microstructure and signals acquired using the medical imaging instrument.…
Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) reconstructs tissue maps based on a sequence of very highly undersampled images. In order to be able to perform MRF reconstruction, state-of-the-art MRF methods rely on priors such as the MR physics…
Inspired by the recently proposed Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) technique, we develop a principled compressed sensing framework for quantitative MRI. The three key components are: a random pulse excitation sequence following the…
Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) is an emerging technology with the potential to revolutionize radiology and medical diagnostics. In comparison to traditional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), MRF enables the rapid, simultaneous,…
We propose a novel numerical approach to separate multiple tissue compartments in image voxels and to estimate quantitatively their nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) properties and mixture fractions, given magnetic resonance fingerprinting…
MR fingerprinting (MRF) is a rapid growing approach for fast quantitave MRI. A typical drawback of dictionary-based MRF is its explosion in size as a function of the number of reconstructed parameters, according to the curse of…
Purpose: Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) is a relatively new approach that provides quantitative MRI measures using randomized acquisition. Extraction of physical quantitative tissue parameters is performed off-line, without the…
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) concepts are rooted in quantum mechanics, but MR imaging principles are well described and more easily grasped using classical ideas and formalisms such as Larmor precession and the phenomenological Bloch…
Quantitative MRI methods that estimate multiple physical parameters simultaneously often require the fitting of a computational complex signal model defined through the Bloch equations. Repeated Bloch simulations can be avoided by matching…
Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) has emerged as a promising quantitative MR imaging approach. Deep learning methods have been proposed for MRF and demonstrated improved performance over classical compressed sensing algorithms.…
Magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) can successfully recover quantitative multi-parametric maps of human tissue in a very short acquisition time. Due to their pseudo-random nature, the large spatial undersampling artifacts can be…
Magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) is a technique for quantitative estimation of spin-relaxation parameters from magnetic-resonance data. Most current MRF approaches assume that only one tissue is present in each voxel, which neglects…
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a widely applied non-invasive imaging modality based on non-ionizing radiation which gives excellent images and soft tissue contrast of living tissues. We consider the modified Bloch problem as a model of…
Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) enables simultaneous mapping of multiple tissue parameters such as T1 and T2 relaxation times. The working principle of MRF relies on varying acquisition parameters pseudo-randomly, so that each…
MR Fingerprinting is a novel quantitative MR technique that could simultaneously provide multiple tissue property maps. When optimizing MRF scans, modeling undersampling errors and field imperfections in cost functions will make the…