Resolution evaluation of MR images reconstructed by iterative thresholding algorithms for compressed sensing

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 4328-4338

  Wech, Tobias ^a   Stäb, Daniel ^b   Budich, Jan Carl ^a   Fischer, André ^a   Tran Gia, Johannes ^a   Hahn, Dietbert ^a   Köstler, Herbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

compressed sensing; image quality; iterative soft thresholding; magnetic resonance imaging; nonlinear transform; nonstationary transform; point spread function; resolution

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSED SENSING; FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHANTOMS; RESONANCE;

MODEL BASED RECONSTRUCTION; NONLINEAR TRANSFORMS; NONSTATIONARY; OBJECTIVE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SOFT THRESHOLDING; SOFT-THRESHOLDING ALGORITHM; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS;

IMAGE SAMPLING;

EID: 84864202499     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4728223     Document Type: Article

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