Patent Document ID: 9720063
Application ID: 13718119
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of generating a magnetic resonance (MR) image of a tissue, comprising: acquiring MR raw data via an imager, 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 wherein the MR signals obtained at the plurality of undersampled q-space locations represent a three dimensional displacement distribution of the spins in an imaging voxel; performing, via a processor associated with the imager, a joint image reconstruction technique on the MR raw data in order to exploit structural correlations of the MR raw data in the MR signals in order to obtain an accelerated series of MR images; performing, on each image pixel in each MR image of the accelerated series of MR images, a compressed sensing reconstruction technique in order to exploit q-space signal sparsity and in order to identify a plurality of diffusion maps; and storing at least one of the plurality of diffusion maps on memory associated with the processor or displaying at least one of the plurality of diffusion maps via a display.