Robust sliding‐window reconstruction for Accelerating the acquisition of MR fingerprinting

• Published in: Magnetic resonance in medicine Vol. 78; no. 4; pp. 1579 - 1588
• Main Authors: Cao, Xiaozhi, Liao, Congyu, Wang, Zhixing, Chen, Ying, Ye, Huihui, He, Hongjian, Zhong, Jianhui
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.10.2017
• Subjects: Algorithms; Brain - diagnostic imaging; Dictionaries; Fingerprinting; Fingerprints; Frames; Humans; Image contrast; Image processing; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted - methods; Image quality; Image reconstruction; In vivo methods and tests; Magnetic resonance; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods; Matching; MR fingerprinting; Phantoms, Imaging; Proton density (concentration); Robustness; Sliding; sliding‐window reconstruction; spiral trajectory; Strategy; Windows (intervals); MR fingerprinting; sliding-window reconstruction; spiral trajectory

Purpose To develop a method for accelerated and robust MR fingerprinting (MRF) with improved image reconstruction and parameter matching processes. Theory and Methods A sliding‐window (SW) strategy was applied to MRF, in which signal and dictionary matching was conducted between fingerprints consist...