Super‐resolution reconstruction of diffusion parameters from diffusion‐weighted images with different slice orientations

Diffusion MRI is hampered by long acquisition times, low spatial resolution, and a low signal‐to‐noise ratio. Recently, methods have been proposed to improve the trade‐off between spatial resolution, signal‐to‐noise ratio, and acquisition time of diffusion‐weighted images via super‐resolution reconstruction (SRR) techniques. However, during the reconstruction, these SRR methods neglect the q‐space relation between the different diffusion‐weighted images.

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