In the second part of the talk, the common assumption in medical imaging that all pixels in a temporal or parametric image series are independent and then must be resampled completely for each temporal or parametric index is examined. The University of Wisconsin MR and CT groups has developed a broad class of approximate reconstruction methods, termed HighlY Constrained Back PRojection (HYPR), to utilize the significant redundancy within medical imaging. These methods have superior SNR relative to previous acceleration techniques and often permit transferring the SNR of an entire scan to individual time frames. Often these concepts can be teamed with accelerated non-Cartesian acquisition methods to achieve larger gains. For example, combining an accelerated MR acquisition with a HYPR reconstruction has achieved undersampling factors up to 1000 in selected applications. When applications require a tighter error constraint, we have developed iterative constrained reconstruction methods where the approximate method serves as an initial estimate to speed convergence. Though methods have begun to be developed that merge the HYPR concept with parallel imaging, significant opportunities exist to advance this field though utilizing advanced estimation theory and compressed sensing.
Time and Place: Wed., Nov. 28, at 3:30 pm in 4610.
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