Space-time variant weighted regularization in compressed sensing cardiac cine MRI

Autor: Alejandro Godino-Moya, Claudia Prieto, Rosa-María Menchón-Lara, Javier Royuela-del-Val, Muhammad Usman, Carlos Alberola-López, Marcos Martín-Fernández
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 58:44-55
ISSN: 0730-725X
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2019.01.005
Popis: Purpose To analyze the impact on image quality and motion fidelity of a motion-weighted space-time variant regularization term in compressed sensing cardiac cine MRI. Methods k-t SPARSE-SENSE with temporal total variation (tTV) is used as the base reconstruction algorithm. Motion in the dynamic image is estimated by means of a robust registration technique for non-rigid motion. The resulting deformation fields are used to leverage the regularization term. The results are compared with standard k-t SPARSE-SENSE with tTV regularization as well as with an improved version of this algorithm that makes use of tTV and temporal Fast Fourier Transform regularization in x-f domain. Results The proposed method with space-time variant regularization provides higher motion fidelity and image quality than the two previously reported methods. Difference images between undersampled reconstruction and fully sampled reference images show less systematic errors with the proposed approach. Conclusions Usage of a space-time variant regularization offers reconstructions with better image quality than the state of the art approaches used for comparison.
Databáze: OpenAIRE