Patent Document ID: 20140167753
Application ID: 13718119
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of generating a magnetic resonance (MR) image of a tissue, comprising: acquiring MR raw data, wherein the MR raw data corresponds to MR signals obtained at undersampled q-space locations for a plurality of q-space locations that are fewer than an entirety of the q-space locations and the MR signals at the q-space locations represent the three dimensional displacement distribution of the spins in the imaging voxel; performing a joint image reconstruction technique on the MR raw data to exploit structural correlations in the MR signals to obtain an accelerated series of MR images; and performing, for each image pixel in each MR image of the accelerated series of MR images, a compressed sensing reconstruction technique to exploit q-space signal sparsity to identify a plurality of diffusion maps.