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Abstract #1911

MR-blob: Coordinate-Transformed Blobs for Parallel MRI Reconstruction

Imraj RD Singh1, Željko Kereta1, Alexander Denker2, Riccardo Barbano3, Bangti Jin4, Kris Thielemans5,6, and Simon Arridge1
1Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom, 2Center of Industrial Mathematics (ZeTeM), University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 3School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, 4Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 5Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London, London, United Kingdom, 6Centre for Medical Image Computing, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Synopsis

Keywords: Image Reconstruction, Parallel Imaging, blobs

Motivation: Reducing the number of parameters needed to represent and reconstruct parallel MRI measurements.

Goal(s): Reconstruct parallel MRI measurements with coordinate-transformed Gaussian functions (blobs) where the forward model is formulated directly. We term this MR-blob.

Approach: MR-blob directly represents parallel MRI measurements; where coil sensitivities are modelled as isotropic Gaussians and the image is represented by coordinate-transformed blobs.

Results: Noisy, undersampled parallel MRI simulations of Shepp-Logan phantom are reconstructed with a pixelised image, a coordinate-transformed blob-based image, and MR-blob; all with total variation regularisation. Quality measures are shown to be consistent across methods and regularisation strengths.

Impact: Parameter-efficient image representations have the potential to reduce computational burden. This work defines parallel MRI forward model for coordinate-transformed blobs. This includes auto-calibrating coil sensitivities that re-scale and translate to fit the parallel MRI measurements.

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