Accelerated 3D MERGE carotid imaging using compressed sensing with a hidden markov tree model

To determine the potential for accelerated 3D carotid magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using wavelet based compressed sensing (CS) with a hidden Markov tree (HMT) model.

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