DataFully sampled and undersampled datasets – work in progressThis web site provides open datasets to researchers who desire to contribute to a community of reproducible research, where they can test and validate their algorithms against known undersampled acquisitions. These datasets were acquired through a collaboration between Michael Lustig at UC Berkeley and Dr. Shreyas Vasanawala at Stanford's Lucille Packard Children's Hospital. The undersampled datasets are of two varieties: variable-density undersampling and uniform-density undersampling. At present, all of the datasets are of knee images. In addition to undersampled datasets, we also provide separate cases of fully sampled knees, for researchers who wish to experiment with their own undersampling patterns SoftwareBART: Berkeley Advanced Reconstruction ToolboxIf you need a state of the art, efficient implementation of parallel imaging and compressed sensing, you have reached the right place. The Berkeley Advanced Reconstruction Toolbox (BART) is a free and open-source image-reconstruction framework for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). It consists of a programming library and a toolbox of command-line programs. The library provides common operations on multi-dimensional arrays, Fourier and wavelet transforms, as well as generic implementations of iterative optimization algorithms. The command-line tools provide direct access to basic operations on multi-dimensional arrays as well as efficient implementations of many calibration and reconstruction algorithms for parallel imaging and compressed sensing.
SigPy: A Python package, for signal processing with emphasis on iterative methods.Written by Frank Ong, this package is built to operate directly on numpy arrays on CPU and cupy arrays on GPU. Its main features include:
SigPy also provides a submodule sigpy.mri for MRI iterative reconstruction methods. Its main features include:
Finally, SigPy provides a preliminary submodule sigpy.learn that implements convolutional sparse coding, and linear regression, using the core module
T2 Shuffling: Sharp, Multicontrast, Volumetric Fast Spin-Echo ImagingThe following code contains a Matlab reference implementation of T2 Shuffling, an acquisition and reconstruction method based on 3D fast spin-echo. T2 Shuffling accounts for temporal dynamics during the echo trains to reduce image blur and resolve multiple image contrasts along the T2 relaxation curve. The code was developed by Jon Tamir to demonstrate the methods and reproduce the figures in the paper:
Code and examples: GitHub Page ESPIRiT: Reference Implementation of Compressed Sensing and Parallel Imaging in MatlabThe Matlab code is a reference to the following papers:
Matlab Library: - Includes implementations of SPIRiT, ESPIRiT, Coil Compression, SAKE low-rank calibrationless Parallel Imaging and poisson-disc sampling.
Sparse MRISparseMRI is a collection of Matlab functions that implement the algorithms and examples described in the paper M. Lustig, D.L Donoho and J.M Pauly “Sparse MRI: The Application of Compressed Sensing for Rapid MR Imaging” Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2007 Dec; 58(6):1182-1195. And in the high-level, non-expert overview M. Lustig, D.L Donoho, J.M Santos and J.M Pauly “Compressed Sensing MRI”, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2008; 25(2): 72-82
Divergence-Free Wavelet DenoisingThe following code contains an implementation of divergence-free wavelet, a vector-wavelet that provides a sparse representation of MR flow data. Divergence-free wavelet can be used to enforce “soft” divergence-free conditions when discretization and partial voluming result in numerical non-divergence-free components. Efficient 4D flow denoising is achieved by appropriate shrinkage of divergence-free and non-divergence-free wavelet coefficients. The package was developed by Frank Ong and accompanies the paper: Frank Ong, Martin Uecker, Umar Tariq, Albert Hsiao, Marcus T Alley, Shreyas S. Vasanawala and Michael Lustig , Robust 4D flow denoising using divergence-free wavelet transform, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2014 Published on-line DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25176 Time Optimal Gradient DesignAn implementation of the algorithms and examples described in the paper M. Lustig S-J Kim and J.M Pauly, “A Fast Method for Designing Time- Optimal Gradient Waveforms for Arbitrary k-Space Trajectories”, Transactions on Medical Imag- ing, 2008; 27(6): 866-873 The following is an improved method based on: S. Vaziri and M. Lustig “The Fastest Gradient Waveforms” which was accepeted for presentation at the annual Meeting of the ISMRM, 2012. The project was funded by the SRC Program and by an undergraduate research grant from Intel.
Nonrigid Motion Correction in 3D using Autofocussing and Buttefly NavigatorsPatient motion is a serious problem in MRI, and in particular when imaging pediatric patients. Butterfly navigators are modifications to the regular 2D/3DFT pulse sequence and allow collection of navigation information during the prewinder stage of the readout. In this work we use the navigators along with multi-channel array and autofocussing image criteria to correct for non-rigid motion in body MRI of pediatric patients. The following code was developed by Joseph Cheng and accompanies the paper: Cheng JY, Alley MT, Cunningham CH, Vasanawala SS, Pauly JM, Lustig M. “Nonrigid Motion Correction in 3D Using Autofocusing with Localized Linear Translations,” Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2012.
Coil Compression for Accelerated Imaging with Cartesian SamplingCoil arrays are used to accelerate the acquisition of MRI by exploiting the spatial sensitivity of the coils for spatial encoding. The increasing number of channels in systems today provides better acceleration, but at the same time results in significant increase in computation time. This in particularly a problem in iterative reconstructions. In this work we exploit redundancy between the channels and the fact that the readout dimension in Cartesian imaging is never subsampled to compress the coils data into MUCH fewer virtual coils. The software provided here is a Matlab protoype developed by Tao Zhang. It is the implementation of the Technique described in Zhang T, Pauly JM, Vasanawala SS, Lustig M. “Coil Compression for Accelerated Imaging with Cartesian Sampling,” MRM 2013;69(2):571-82.
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