Using Radial k-space Sampling and Temporal Filters in MRI to Improve Temporal Resolution
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In this master thesis methods for increasing temporal resolution when reconstructing radially sampled MRI data have been developed and evaluated. This has been done in two steps; first the order in which data is sampled in k-space has been optimized, and second; temporal filters have been developed in order to utilize the high sampling density in central regions of k-space as a result of the polar sampling geometry to increase temporal resolution while maintaining image quality. By properly designing the temporal filters the temporal resolution is increased by a factor 3–20 depending on other variables such as image resolution and the size of the time varying areas in the image. The results are obtained from simulated raw data and subsequent reconstruction. The next step should be to acquire and reconstruct raw data to confirm the results. Sammanfattning I detta examensarbete har metoder för att öka den temporala upplösningen vid rekonstruktion av radiellt samplat MRI-data utvecklats och utvärderats. Detta har skett i tv̊a steg; först har ordningen för samplingen av k-rummet optimerats, och sedan har temporala filter utvecklats för att utnyttja den höga samplingstätheten för centrala delar av k-rummet som resultat av den polära samplingsgeometrin för att öka den temporala upplösningen med bibeh̊allen bildkvalitet. Med korrekt designade temporala filter kunde tidsupplösningen ökas med en faktor 3–20 beroende p̊a andra variabler som upplösning och storleken p̊a det tidsvarierande arean. Resultaten är erh̊allna fr̊an simulerad r̊adata som sedan rekonstruerats och utvärderats. Nästa steg bör vara att samla in och rekonstruera verklig data för att bekräfta resultaten.
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