Sparse MRI: The application of compressed sensing for rapid MR imaging

@article{Lustig2007SparseMT,
  title={Sparse MRI: The application of compressed sensing for rapid MR imaging},
  author={Michael Lustig and David L. Donoho and John M. Pauly},
  journal={Magnetic Resonance in Medicine},
  year={2007},
  volume={58}
}
The sparsity which is implicit in MR images is exploited to significantly undersample k‐space. Some MR images such as angiograms are already sparse in the pixel representation; other, more complicated images have a sparse representation in some transform domain–for example, in terms of spatial finite‐differences or their wavelet coefficients. According to the recently developed mathematical theory of compressed‐sensing, images with a sparse representation can be recovered from randomly… 
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