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Abstract #4675

MRI-NUFFT: An open source Python package to make non-Cartesian MR Imaging easier

Pierre-Antoine Comby1, Guillaume Daval-Frérot2, Chaithya GR3, Alexandre Vignaud3, and Philippe Ciuciu3,4
1CEA/Neurospin, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, 2Chipiron, Paris, France, 3CEA/Neurospin, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France, 4Inria/MIND, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Synopsis

Keywords: Software Tools, Software Tools, NUFFT, Non-Cartesian

Motivation: Non-Cartesian imaging remains complicated to use for MRI due to the high computational cost of the Non-Uniform Fourier Transform for image reconstruction.

Goal(s): To provide a uniform interface for reconstructing magnetic resonance images from non-Cartesian k-space data and a collection of non-Cartesian sampling trajectories

Approach: We propose an open-source Python package (https://github.com/mind-inria/mri-nufft/) providing a standard interface to existing NUFFT libraries, with extended models for multi-coil imaging and static-field (B0) inhomogeneities correction.

Results: MRI-NUFFT can generate sampling trajectories, compliant with hardware constraints, as well as simple forward/adjoint operations and density compensation for use in advanced image reconstruction scenarios.

Impact: With MRI-NUFFT, non-Cartesian MRI trajectories and reconstruction algorithms become accessible, efficient, and affordable to everyone for research and education purposes.

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