Non-Equispaced System Matrix Acquisition for Magnetic Particle Imaging Based on Lissajous Node Points

Christian Kaethner*, Wolfgang Erb, Mandy Ahlborg, Patryk Szwargulski, Tobias Knopp, Thorsten M. Buzug

*Corresponding author for this work
5 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) is an emerging technology in the field of (pre)clinical imaging. The acquisition of a particle signal is realized along specific sampling trajectories covering a defined field of view (FOV). In a system matrix (SM) based reconstruction procedure, the commonly used acquisition path in MPI is a Lissajous trajectory. Such a trajectory features an inhomogeneous coverage of the FOV, i.e. the center region is sampled less dense than the regions towards the edges of the FOV. Conventionally, the respective SM acquisition and the subsequent reconstruction do not reflect this inhomogeneous coverage. Instead, they are performed on an equispaced grid. The objective of this work is to introduce a sampling grid that inherently features the aforementioned inhomogeneity by using node points of Lissajous trajectories. Paired with a tailored polynomial interpolation of the reconstructed MPI signal, the entire image can be recovered. It is the first time that such a trajectory related non-equispaced grid is used for image reconstruction on simulated and measured MPI data and it is shown that the number of sampling positions can be reduced, while the spatial resolution remains constant.

Original languageEnglish
Article number7490369
JournalIEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Volume35
Issue number11
Pages (from-to)2476-2485
Number of pages10
ISSN0278-0062
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.11.2016

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