Analytical Form of Shepp-Logan Phantom for Parallel MRI
M. Guerquin-Kern, F.I. Karahanoğlu, D. Van De Ville, K.P. Pruessmann, M. Unser
Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI'10), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, April 14-17, 2010, in press.
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We present an analytical form of ground-truth k-space data for the 2-D Shepp-Logan brain phantom in the presence of multiple and non-homogeneous receiving coils. The analytical form allows us to conduct realistic simulations and validations of reconstruction algorithms for parallel MRI. The key contribution of our work is to use a polynomial representation of the coil's sensitivity. We show that this method is particularly accurate and fast with respect to the conventional methods. The implementation is made available to the community.
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