User-guided compressed sensing for magnetic resonance angiography

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2014:2014:2416-9. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944109.

Abstract

Compressed sensing (CS) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) enables the reconstruction of MRI images with fewer samples in k-space. One requirement is that the acquired image has a sparse representation in a known transform domain. MR angiograms are already sparse in the image domain. They can be further sparsified through finite-differences. Therefore, it is a natural application for CS-MRI. However, low-contrast vessels are likely to disappear at high undersampling ratios, since the commonly used £(1) reconstruction tends to underestimate the magnitude of the transformed sparse coefficients. These vessels, however, are likely to be clinically important for medical diagnosis. To avoid the fading of low-contrast vessels, we propose a user-guided CS MRI that is able to mitigate the reduction of vessel contrast within a region of interest (ROI). Simulations show that these low-contrast vessels can be well maintained via our method which results in higher local quality compared to conventional CS.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Contrast Media
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Angiography / methods*
  • Time Factors

Substances

  • Contrast Media