Spatiotemporal denoising of MR spectroscopic imaging data by low-rank approximations

Abstract

This paper addresses the denoising problem associated with magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI), where low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) has been a critical problem. A new scheme is proposed, which exploits two low-rank structures that exist in MRSI data, one due to partial separability and the other is due to linear predictability. Experimental results from practical data demonstrate that the proposed method provides an effective way to denoise MRSI data while preserving spatial-spectral features in a wide range of SNR values. © 2011 IEEE.