Reduced motion artifacts in medical imaging by adaptive spatio-temporal reconstruction (Q1893529)

Fast imaging of tissues with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has shown great promise in the study of the body's function. In this paper the authors introduce an algorithm for imaging a time varying object \(f(\vec x,t)\), from its projections at different fixed times. This algorithm differs from other algorithms in that it is not necessary that the object remains stationary during the data acquisition period. The authors show that the reconstruction of coarse features, corresponding to low spatial-frequency data, can be made nearly instantaneously in time from the evolving data. A temporal sequence of these low spatial-frequency reconstructions can be used to estimate the motion of the object. Once the motion is estimated, one may use the estimate to compensate for some of the motion of fine scale features. This enables accurate reconstructions of the time varying fine structure if the motion is not too extreme. This algorithm shows promise for a wide variety of applications in MRI, as well as for heart imaging using \(x\)-ray computer tomography.