An improved MRI reconstruction method based on table-lookup gridding

Abstract

Radial encoding is often performed for fast data acquisition in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Therefore, the gridding method, which is a kind of algorithm for Fast Fourier Transform, is widely used in fast MRI reconstruction. In this paper, an improved gridding method has been utilized to 2D MRI reconstruction, which precomputes an 1D finely sampled table of a high-accuracy interpolator and then uses separable bilinear interpolation by look-up table. Experimental comparisons are made by assessing the performance of the direct reconstruction, the conventional KB gridding and the proposed method. The experimental results show that the proposed method provides high accuracy, fast computation, and dramatic memory saving.