Blind compressed sensing with sparse dictionaries for accelerated dynamic MRI

Several algorithms that model the voxel time series as a sparse linear combination of basis functions in a fixed dictionary were introduced to recover dynamic MRI data from under sampled Fourier measurements. We have recently demonstrated that the joint estimation of dictionary basis and the sparse coefficients from the k-space data results in improved reconstructions. In this paper, we investigate the use of additional priors on the learned basis functions. Specifically, we assume the basis functions to be sparse in pre-specified transform or operator domains. Our experiments show that this constraint enables the suppression of noisy basis functions, thus further improving the quality of the reconstructions. We demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed method through various reconstruction examples.