Accelerating cardiovascular imaging by exploiting regional low-rank structure via group sparsity

Sparse sampling of (k, t)-space has proved useful for cardiac MRI. This paper builds on previous work on using partial separability (PS) and spatial-spectral sparsity for high-quality image reconstruction from highly undersampled (k, t)-space data. This new method uses a more flexible control over the PS-induced low-rank constraint via group-sparse regularization. A novel algorithm is also described to solve the corresponding (1,2)-norm regularized inverse problem. Reconstruction results from simulated cardiovascular imaging data are presented to demonstrate the performance of the proposed method.

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