R-FMRI Reconstruction from K-T Undersampled Simultaneous-Multislice (SMS) MRI with Controlled Aliasing: Towards Higher Spatial Resolution

Autor: S. N. Merchant, Prachi H. Kulkarni, Kratika Gupta, Suyash P. Awate
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: ISBI
DOI: 10.1109/isbi45749.2020.9098450
Popis: Accelerated resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (R-fMRI) can provide higher spatial resolution and improved brain connectivity maps. Current methods for fast R-fMRI rely on either fully-sampled parallel imaging or undersampled reconstruction using signal priors, but not both. We propose a novel Bayesian reconstruction framework that combines simultaneous multislice (SMS) imaging, controlled aliasing, and undersampling in k-space and time to reconstruct high-quality signals and connectivity maps. We use a generative dictionary model on R-fMRI time-series, which is robust to signal fluctuations and artifacts, adapts to inter-subject variations through optimized similarity transforms on its atoms, and uses spatially regularized sparsity. Results on simulated and clinical R-fMRI show that our method gives more accurate reconstructions and connectivity maps than the state of the art, and can enable higher spatial resolution.
Databáze: OpenAIRE