Background: Obesity is a global health problem affecting all age groups. Childhood obesity,
which may cause chronic diseases including diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease and …

Purpose To evaluate and to compare Parallel Imaging and Compressed Sensing acquisition
and reconstruction frameworks based on simultaneous multislice excitation for high …

Purpose: To combine global cardiac function imaging with compressed sensing (CS) in
order to reduce scan time and to validate this technique in normal mouse hearts and in a …

Purpose Cardiac MRI represents the gold standard to determine myocardial function.
However, the current clinical standard protocol, a segmented Cartesian acquisition, is time …

Purpose: The aim of this study was to perform functional MR imaging of the whole heart in a
single breath-hold using an undersampled 3 D trajectory for data acquisition in combination …

Purpose: Magnetic resonance imaging systems usually feature linear and shift‐invariant
(stationary) transform characteristics. The point spread function or equivalently the …

CMR at an ultra-high field (magnetic field strength B0≥ 7 Tesla) benefits from the signal-to-
noise ratio (SNR) advantage inherent at higher magnetic field strengths and potentially …

Background: Multi-slice, multiple breath-hold ECG-gated 2D cine MRI is a standard
technique for evaluating heart function and restricted to one or two images per breath-hold …

Abstract Purpose Phase Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a tool for non-
invasive determination of flow velocities inside blood vessels. Because Phase Contrast MRI …

This thesis investigated the potential of Compressed Sensing (CS) applied to Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (MRI). CS is a novel image reconstruction method that emerged from …