Tailored utilization of acquired k space points for GRAPPA reconstruction英文文献.pdfVIP

Journal of Magnetic Resonance 174 (2005) 60–67 /locate/jmr Tailored utilization of acquired k-space points for GRAPPA reconstruction Peng Qu, Gary X. Shen *, Chunsheng Wang, Bing Wu, Jing Yuan Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong Received 30 August 2004; revised 14 January 2005 Abstract The generalized auto-calibrating partially parallel acquisition (GRAPPA) is an auto-calibrating parallel imaging technique which incorporates multiple blocks of data to derive the missing signals. In the original GRAPPA reconstruction algorithm only the data points in phase encoding direction are incorporated to reconstruct missing points in k-space. It has been recognized that this scheme can be extended so that data points in readout direction are also utilized and the points are selected based on a k-space locality criterion. In this study, an automatic subset selection strategy is proposed which can provide a tailored selection of source points for reconstruction. This novel approach extracts a subset of signal points corresponding to the most linearly independent base vec- tors in the coefficient matrix of fit, effectively preventing incorporating redundant signals which only bring noise into reconstruction with little contribution to the exactness of fit. Also, subset selection in this way has a regularization effect since the vectors corre- sponding to the smallest singular values are eliminated and consequently the condition of the reconstruction is improved. Phantom and in vivo MRI experiments demonstrate that this subset selection strategy can effectively improve SNR and reduce residual