An iterative method for maximum entropy regularization reconstruction in MRI
✍ Scribed by Yuanmei Wang; Xiaodong Zhao
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 145 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0899-9457
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✦ Synopsis
Many problems in physics involve imaging objects with high spatial frequency content in a limited amount of time. The limitation of available experimental data leads to the infamous problem of diffraction limited data, which manifests itself by causing ringing in the image. This ringing is due to interference phenomena in optics and is known as the Gibbs phenomenon in engineering. In this paper, an iterative maximum entropy regularization (IMER) algorithm for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is developed, which produces a superresolution and optimal signal-to-noise solution to the problem of reconstructing a source from partial Fourier transform data. This method is capable, in principle, of unlimited resolution and is robust with respect to Gaussian white noise perturbation. Comparisons of the IMER method with the conventional Fourier transform method are carried out with the real magnetic resonance data to illustrate the performance of the proposed method.