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Parallel MRI is a fast imaging technique that enables the acquisition of highly resolved images in space or/and in time. The performance of parallel imaging strongly depends on the reconstruction algorithm, which can proceed either in the…

Applications · Statistics 2013-10-07 Lotfi Chaari , Sébastien Mériaux , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Philippe Ciuciu

MR imaging is a valuable diagnostic tool allowing to non-invasively visualize patient anatomy and pathology with high soft-tissue contrast. However, MRI acquisition is typically time-consuming, leading to patient discomfort and increased…

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) offers unparalleled soft-tissue contrast but is fundamentally limited by long acquisition times. While deep learning-based accelerated MRI can dramatically shorten scan times, the reconstruction from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Paul Fischer , Jan Nikolas Morshuis , Thomas Küstner , Christian Baumgartner

Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) is an MRI phase-based post-processing method that quantifies tissue magnetic susceptibility distributions. However, QSM acquisitions are relatively slow, even with parallel imaging. Incoherent…

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Cardiac MRI (CMRI) is a cornerstone imaging modality that provides in-depth insights into cardiac structure and function. Multi-contrast CMRI (MCCMRI), which acquires sequences with varying contrast weightings, significantly enhances…

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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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-09-03 Lotfi Chaari , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Philippe Ciuciu , Amel Benazza-Benyahia

In portable, three dimensional, and ultra-fast ultrasound imaging systems, there is an increasing demand for the reconstruction of high quality images from a limited number of radio-frequency (RF) measurements due to receiver (Rx) or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Yeo Hun Yoon , Shujaat Khan , Jaeyoung Huh , Jong Chul Ye

Frame rate is a crucial consideration in cardiac ultrasound imaging and 3D sonography. Several methods have been proposed in the medical ultrasound literature aiming at accelerating the image acquisition. In this paper, we consider one such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Sanketh Vedula , Ortal Senouf , Grigoriy Zurakhov , Alex M. Bronstein , Michael Zibulevsky , Oleg Michailovich , Dan Adam , Diana Gaitini

Current 3D photoacoustic tomography (PAT) systems offer either high image quality or high frame rates but are not able to deliver high spatial and temporal resolution simultaneously, which limits their ability to image dynamic processes in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Simon Arridge , Paul Beard , Marta Betcke , Ben Cox , Nam Huynh , Felix Lucka , Olumide Ogunlade , Edward Zhang

This article presents a novel undersampled magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that leverages the concept of Neural Radiance Field (NeRF). With radial undersampling, the corresponding imaging problem can be reformulated into an image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Tae Jun Jang , Chang Min Hyun

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging is a valuable non-invasive tool for identifying cardiovascular diseases. For instance, Cine MRI is the benchmark modality for assessing the cardiac function and anatomy. On the other hand, multi-contrast…

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Purpose: Compressed sensing MRI (CS-MRI) from single and parallel coils is one of the powerful ways to reduce the scan time of MR imaging with performance guarantee. However, the computational costs are usually expensive. This paper aims to…

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3D Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is often a trade-off between fast but low-resolution image acquisition and highly detailed but slow image acquisition. Fast imaging is required for targets that move to avoid motion artefacts. This is in…

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Good quality of medical images is a prerequisite for the success of subsequent image analysis pipelines. Quality assessment of medical images is therefore an essential activity and for large population studies such as the UK Biobank (UKBB),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Ilkay Oksuz , Bram Ruijsink , Esther Puyol-Anton , James Clough , Gastao Cruz , Aurelien Bustin , Claudia Prieto , Rene Botnar , Daniel Rueckert , Julia A. Schnabel , Andrew P. King

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) nowadays serves as an important modality for diagnostic and therapeutic guidance in clinics. However, the {\it slow acquisition} process, the dynamic deformation of organs, as well as the need for {\it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Morteza Mardani , Georgios B. Giannakis , Kamil Ugurbil

MR-STAT is an emerging quantitative magnetic resonance imaging technique which aims at obtaining multi-parametric tissue parameter maps from single short scans. It describes the relationship between the spatial-domain tissue parameters and…

Image noise and motion artifacts greatly affect the quality of brain MRI and negatively influence downstream medical image analysis. Previous studies often focus on 2D methods that process each volumetric MR image slice-by-slice, thus…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-14 Lintao Zhang , Mengqi Wu , Lihong Wang , David C. Steffens , Guy G. Potter , Mingxia Liu

In fMRI, capturing brain activation during a task is dependent on how quickly k-space arrays are obtained. Acquiring full k-space arrays, which are reconstructed into images using the inverse Fourier transform (IFT), that make up volume…

Applications · Statistics 2024-05-27 Chase J Sakitis , Daniel B Rowe

Parallel MRI is a fast imaging technique that enables the acquisition of highly resolved images in space. It relies on $k$-space undersampling and multiple receiver coils with complementary sensitivity profiles in order to reconstruct a…