This work investigates accelerating CEST imaging using parallel blind compressed sensing (BCS). BCS method assumes a few functions are enough to represent the dynamic behavior. In CEST imaging, the Z-spectrum performs similar in the same compartment, which is suitable for BCS reconstruction. The traditional BCS method does not consider the coil sensitivity, which is complementary sparse information with spatial-temporal dictionary. The proposed method addresses the coil sensitivity information and the sparsity prior information in CEST and further improves the BCS method, demonstrating a better estimation of the CEST effect for both phantom and in vivo brain data.
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