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Dynamic MR image reconstruction based on total generalized variation and low-rank decomposition.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Propose a novel decomposition-based model employing the total generalized variation (TGV) and the nuclear norm, which can be used in compressed sensing-based dynamic MR reconstructions.

Theory and methods

We employ the nuclear norm to represent the time-coherent background and the spatiotemporal TGV functional for the sparse dynamic component above. We first design an algorithm using the classical first-order primal-dual method for solving the proposed model and then give the norm estimation for the convergence condition. The proposed model is compared with the state-of-the-art methods on different data sets under different sampling schemes and acceleration factors.

Results

The proposed model achieves higher SERs and SSIMs than kt-SLR, kt-RPCA, L+S, and ICTGV on cardiac perfusion and breast DCE-MRI data sets under both the pseudoradial and the Cartesian sampling schemes. In addition, the proposed model better suppresses the spatial artifacts and preserves the edges.

Conclusions

The proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art methods and generates high-quality reconstructions under different sampling schemes and different acceleration factors.

SUBMITTER: Wang D

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7047634 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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