RT Conference Proceedings T1 High-Resolution Dynamic Cardiac MRI on Small Animals Using Reconstruction Based on Split Bregman Methodology A1 Montesinos, Philippe A1 Abascal, Juan A1 Chamorro Servent, Judit A1 Chavarrías, Cristina A1 Benito, M. A1 Vaquero López, Juan José A1 Desco Menéndez, Manuel AB Dynamic cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in small animals is an important tool in the study of cardiovascular diseases. The reduction of the long acquisition times required for cardiovascular applications is crucial to achieve good spatiotemporal resolution and signal-to-noise ratio. Nowadays there are many acceleration techniques which can reduce acquisition time, including compressed sensing technique. Compressed sensing allows image reconstruction from undersampled data, by means of a non linear reconstruction which minimizes the total variation of the image. The recently appeared Split Bregman methodology has proved to be more computationally efficient to solve this problem than classic optimization methods. In the case of dynamic magnetic resonance imaging, compressed sensing can exploit time sparsity by the minimization of total variation across both space and time. In this work, we propose and validate the Split Bregman method to minimize spatial and time total variation, and apply this method to accelerate cardiac cine acquisitions in rats. We found that applying a quasi-random variable density pattern along the phase-encoding direction, accelerations up to a factor 5 are possible with low error. In the future, we expect to obtain higher accelerations using spatiotemporal undersampling. PB Ieee - The Institute Of Electrical And Electronics Engineers, Inc SN 978-1-4673-0118-3 SN 1082-3654 YR 2011 FD 2011 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/20132 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/20132 LA eng NO Proceedings of: 2011 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC). Valencia, Spain, 23-29 October 2011 NO This work is supported in part by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (Red RECA VA), Comunidad de Madrid and Fondos FEDER (ARTEMIS project S2009DPI 1802). DS e-Archivo RD 17 jul. 2024