Physics-based reconstruction methods for magnetic resonance imaging

X Wang, Z Tan, N Scholand… - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is hampered by long scan times and only
qualitative image contrasts that prohibit a direct comparison between different systems. To …

Automated design of pulse sequences for magnetic resonance fingerprinting using physics-inspired optimization

SP Jordan, S Hu, I Rozada, DF McGivney… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
Magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) is a method to extract quantitative tissue properties
such as T 1 and T 2 relaxation rates from arbitrary pulse sequences using conventional MRI …

Quantifying amide proton exchange rate and concentration in chemical exchange saturation transfer imaging of the human brain

HY Heo, Z Han, S Jiang, M Schär, PCM van Zijl, J Zhou - Neuroimage, 2019 - Elsevier
Current chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) neuroimaging protocols typically
acquire CEST-weighted images, and, as such, do not essentially provide quantitative proton …

[HTML][HTML] Accuracy and performance analysis for Bloch and Bloch-McConnell simulation methods

C Graf, A Rund, CS Aigner, R Stollberger - Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose To introduce new solution methods for the Bloch and Bloch-McConnell equations
and compare them quantitatively to different known approaches. Theory and Methods A new …

Understanding the Combined Effect of -Space Undersampling and Transient States Excitation in MR Fingerprinting Reconstructions

CC Stolk, A Sbrizzi - IEEE transactions on medical imaging, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) is able to estimate multiple quantitative tissue
parameters from a relatively short acquisition. The main characteristic of an MRF sequence …

GPU‐accelerated Bloch simulations and MR‐STAT reconstructions using the Julia programming language

O van der Heide, CAT van den Berg… - Magnetic Resonance …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose MR‐STAT is a relatively new multiparametric quantitative MRI technique in which
quantitative paramater maps are obtained by solving a large‐scale nonlinear optimization …

High‐resolution in vivo MR‐STAT using a matrix‐free and parallelized reconstruction algorithm

O van der Heide, A Sbrizzi, PR Luijten… - NMR in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
MR‐STAT is a recently proposed framework that allows the reconstruction of multiple
quantitative parameter maps from a single short scan by performing spatial localisation and …

Fast and accurate modeling of transient‐state, gradient‐spoiled sequences by recurrent neural networks

H Liu, O van der Heide, CAT van den Berg… - NMR in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Fast and accurate modeling of MR signal responses are typically required for various
quantitative MRI applications, such as MR fingerprinting. This work uses a new extended …

Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging: From fingerprinting to integrated physics-based models

G Dong, M Hintermüller, K Papafitsoros - SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 2019 - SIAM
Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI) is concerned with estimating (in physical
units) values of magnetic and tissue parameters, eg, relaxation times T_1, T_2, or proton …

Efficient performance analysis and optimization of transient‐state sequences for multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging

M Fuderer, O van der Heide, H Liu… - NMR in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In transient‐state multiparametric MRI sequences such as Magnetic Resonance Spin
TomogrAphy in Time‐domain (MR‐STAT), MR fingerprinting, or hybrid‐state imaging, the …