Faster and better HARDI using FSE and holistic reconstruction
Maarten Naeyaert1, Vladimir Golkov2, Daniel Cremers2, Jan Sijbers3, and Marleen Verhoye4
1Radiology, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, 2Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany, 3Imec-Vision Lab, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium, 4Bio-Imaging Lab, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium
Simultaneous
subsampling of k- and q-space of FSE-HARDI data can improve the reconstruction
quality over only q-space subsampling for a given subsampling
factor. Alternating the phase-encoding direction for each volume improves the
results.
Figure 1:
RMSD values for all subsampling factors and subsampling
strategies. Blue: full k-space, orange: 1D alternated subsampling, grey: 1D random
subsampling. Higher subsampling
factors lead to a larger error, but for all factors 1D
alternated subsampling performs best, indicating the enhanced performance
of subsampling in q-space and 2
k-space dimensions.
Figure 2:
Normalized reconstruction error of a single slice for b0 (top, left) and all 60
diffusion direction, for the best case results, using 1/3 of the original data
by using 40 q-space coordinates and 1d alternated subsampling.
Most errors are
near the ears, whereas in the
brain errors are very small.