Learning-based method for k-space trajectory design in MRI

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2022 Jul:2022:1464-1467. doi: 10.1109/EMBC48229.2022.9871692.

Abstract

Variable density sampling of the k-space in MRI is an integral part of trajectory design. It has been observed that data-driven trajectory design methods provide a better image reconstruction as compared to trajectories obtained from a fixed or a parametric density function. In this paper, a data-driven strategy has been proposed to obtain non-Cartesian continuous k-space sampling trajectories for MRI under the compressed sensing framework (greedy non-Cartesian (GNC)). A stochas-tic version of the algorithm (stochastic greedy non-Cartesian (SGNC)) is also proposed that reduces the computation time. We compare the proposed trajectory with a traveling salesman problem (TSP)-based trajectory and an echo planar imaging-like trajectory obtained by a greedy method called stochastic greedy-Cartesian (SGC) algorithm. The training images are taken from knee images of the fastMRI dataset. It is observed that the proposed algorithms outperform the TSP-based and the SGC trajectories for similar read-out times.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted* / methods
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging* / methods
  • Phantoms, Imaging
  • Records