Myelin water imaging from multi-echo T₂ MR relaxometry data using a joint sparsity constraint

Demyelination is the key pathological process in multiple sclerosis (MS). The extent of demyelination can be quantified with magnetic resonance imaging by assessing the myelin water fraction (MWF). However, long computation times and high noise sensitivity hinder the translation of MWF imaging to clinical practice. In this work, we introduce...

Fast multi-component analysis using a joint sparsity constraint for MR fingerprinting

<br/>Purpose<br/><br/>To develop an efficient algorithm for multi‐component analysis of magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) data without making a priori assumptions about the exact number of tissues or their relaxation properties.<br/>Methods<br/><br/>Different tissues or components within a voxel are potentially separable in MRF because of...