Zhen Feng1,
Feng Liu2, Stuart Crozier2, He Guo1
1Dalian
University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning, China; 2The University
of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
In the sequential combination of parallel imaging (PI) and compressed sensing (CS) MRI, the CS procedure is conventionally performed on individual coils. In fact, the individual coil data are sensitivity-weighted maps of the whole MRI image, therefore signal overlapping exists between coil data. In this work, we propose a novel sparsity basis to improve CS reconstruction through the exploitation of the inter-coil spatial redundancies. In addition, by introducing a new filter that separates the measured and reconstructed data during L2-norm optimization, noise and errors can be minimized in the sequential PI-CS method. The brain image study showed the promise of the new PI-CS scheme.