MIDL 2020, S047, Lim et al. Short presentation
Channel: MIDL Society
Date: 2020-07-05

S047 - Deblurring for spiral real-time MRI using convolutional neural networks

Yongwan Lim, Shrikanth Narayanan, Krishna Nayak

Conference page: https://2020.midl.io/papers/lim20.html
PDF: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=zYareJYs8Z

Abstract: Spiral acquisitions are preferred in real-time MRI because of their time efficiency. A fundamental limitation of spirals is image blurring due to off-resonance, which degrades image quality significantly at air-tissue boundaries. Here, we demonstrate a simple CNN-based deblurring method for spiral real-time MRI of human speech production. We show the CNN-based deblurring is capable of restoring blurred vocal tract tissue boundaries, without a need for exam-specific field maps. Deblurring performance is superior to a current auto-calibrated method, and slightly inferior to ideal reconstruction with perfect knowledge of the field maps.