FCS-edNET: Exploring Magnetic Particle Imaging Deblurring With Neural Network

Magnetic particle imaging technology, a novel medical imaging technology, possesses rapid imaging, high penetration depth, and is free from ionizing radiation. However, the system point spread function causes imaging blurring, which can be further exacerbated by external environmental interferences. Although hardware improvements and system optimization can mitigate blurring, these approaches are often expensive and time-consuming, particularly for low-field imaging in large-scale systems. This article proposes a Fast Context-aware Saliency-enhanced Deblurring Network, FCS-edNET, to solve the challenging issue by deblurring the reconstructed images. The network introduces the Multi-scale Global module to enhance the multi-scale feature perception ability. The Multi-scale Denoising Prior algorithm, which employs a low-frequency filter operator to restrict image noise and offers priors for each layer of subnetworks, is designed to improve the model robustness. Finally, proposing a Multi-level Joint loss optimizes model parameters to promote model convergence speed and space distribution simulation capability. Extensive experiments on multiple public and private datasets demonstrate that FCS-edNET outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in MPI image deblurring efficiently, suggesting its potential to support future research toward clinical imaging applications. The code is available at https://github.com/ydz1118/FCS-edNET.