Personalized local SAR prediction for parallel transmit neuroimaging at 7T from a single T1-weighted dataset

Purpose: Parallel RF transmission (PTx) is one of the key technologies enabling high quality imaging at ultra-high fields (≥7T). Compliance with regulatory limits on the local specific absorption rate (SAR) typically involves over-conservative safety margins to account for intersubject variability, which negatively affect the utilization of...

Learning a preconditioner to accelerate compressed sensing reconstructions in MRI

Purpose: To learn a preconditioner that accelerates parallel imaging (PI) and compressed sensing (CS) reconstructions. Methods: A convolutional neural network (CNN) with residual connections was used to train a preconditioning operator. Training and validation data were simulated using 50% brain images and 50% white Gaussian noise images....