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Abstract #2434

IMPROVEMENT OF TOF-MRA IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION FROM UNDERSAMPLED DATA BY HEURISTIC MODIFICATION

Akira YAMAMOTO1, Koji FUJIMOTO1, Yasutaka FUSHIMI1, Tomohisa OKADA2, Kei SANO3, Toshiyuki TANAKA3, and Kaori TOGASHI1

1Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 2Human Brain Research Center, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 3Department of Systems Science, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

We study a heuristic modification of the NESTA algorithm for compressed sensing reconstruction of TOF-MRA images, where at each iteration the calculated k-space data are replaced with the original (acquired) data wherever the latter are available. We compared the modified method with the original method. In qualitative visual analysis, reconstructed images from the modified method were a little noisier but with better vessel signal delineation. In quantitative analysis, the modified method as compared with the original method marked higher rVBR values in lower sampling ratio, and caused no image degradation in higher sampling ratio. The modified method therefore provides a viable option in improving reconstruction of the NESTA algorithm for TOF-MRA undersampled data.

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