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  • Medical Imaging
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Fluid Dynamics

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  • Four-dimensional (4D) flow MRI is crucial for analyzing blood flow dynamics.
  • Undersampling in 4D flow MRI compromises the accuracy of velocity vector field reconstruction.
  • Standard compressed sensing (CS) methods have limitations in capturing precise flow characteristics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To enhance the accuracy of velocity vector field reconstruction in undersampled 4D flow MRI.
  • To introduce and evaluate novel regularization techniques that penalize the divergence of the flow field.

Main Methods:

  • Implemented iterative image reconstruction with separate regularization of magnitude and phase.
  • Applied divergence-free wavelets (DFW) and a finite difference (FD) method using the ℓ1-norm of divergence and curl for velocity data regularization.
  • Tested reconstruction methods on a numerical phantom and in vivo data, comparing with standard CS.

Main Results:

  • Directional errors in vector fields were reduced by 55-60% for 3-fold undersampled data and 38-48% for 6-fold undersampled data using DFW and FD methods compared to standard CS.
  • Divergence errors were significantly reduced (38-48%) with the proposed methods.
  • Visualizations of velocity vector fields in both phantom and in vivo data showed marked improvement after DFW or FD reconstruction.

Conclusions:

  • Regularizing vector field divergence is a highly effective strategy for improving reconstruction accuracy in undersampled 4D flow MRI.
  • The DFW and FD methods offer substantial improvements over standard CS for velocity vector field reconstruction.
  • This approach holds significant potential for more precise analysis of complex flow dynamics in clinical applications.