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Luuk Jacobs1, Pietro Dirix1, Sebastian Kozerke1

  • 1Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

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|June 12, 2026
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Fourier shell analysis effectively separates resolution enhancement from denoising in super-resolution (SR) 4D flow MRI. This k-space method provides a superior metric for evaluating SR performance compared to image-based approaches.

Keywords:
4D flow MRIcomputational fluid dynamicsdeep learningimage synthesisopen‐sourcereproducibilitysuper‐resolution

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Area of Science:

  • Medical Imaging
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics

Background:

  • Super-resolution (SR) techniques aim to enhance image quality in 4D flow MRI.
  • Evaluating SR performance is challenging due to confounding factors like denoising.
  • Novel methods are needed to accurately assess resolution enhancement in 4D flow MRI.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce Fourier shell analysis as a novel method for evaluating SR in 4D flow MRI.
  • To disentangle resolution enhancement from denoising effects in SR 4D flow MRI.
  • To compare the efficacy of Fourier shell analysis against traditional image-based metrics.

Main Methods:

  • A thoracic aortic 4D flow MRI dataset was synthesized with ground truth flow fields.
  • Paired low- and high-resolution (LR/HR) 4D Flow MRI data were generated.
  • k-space-based Fourier shell analysis was proposed and compared to image-based metrics using a deep learning SR network (4DFlowNet) across varying signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs).

Main Results:

  • Fourier shell analysis demonstrated superiority in isolating and quantifying resolution enhancement compared to image-based metrics.
  • For noiseless data, Fourier shell analysis showed a 160.3% difference versus 13.1% for image-based metrics.
  • Significant improvements in isolating resolution enhancement were observed across different SNRs (20 and 5) using Fourier shell analysis.

Conclusions:

  • Fourier shell analysis effectively disentangles and quantifies resolution gain and denoising in SR 4D flow MRI.
  • This method should be adopted as an additional metric for assessing SR approaches in 4D flow MRI.
  • The findings support the advancement of SR techniques in cardiovascular imaging.