Jos P. Marques1,2, Yves Wiaux3,4,
Rolf Gruetter1,5
1Laboratory for Functional
& Metabolic Imaging, Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne, Lausanne,
Vaud, Switzerland; 2Department of Radiology, University of
Lausanne, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland; 3Signal Processing
Laboratory 5, Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne, Lausanne,
Switzerland; 4Medical Image Processing Laboratory, University of
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; 5Department of Radiology, University
of Lausanne and Geneva, Switzerland
In this abstract a fast iterative method to filter the large background phase shifts of susceptibility origin in phase imaging is presented. The algorithm is based on the matching pursuit iterative methodology to solve the ill posed inverse problem of finding a susceptibility distribution outside that can explain the field inside the region of interest. The algorithm is demonstrated both in synthetic and in vivo brain data acquired at 7T.