Recently, super-resolution methods for diffusion MRI capable of retrieving high-resolution diffusion-weighted images were proposed, yielding a resolution beyond the scanner hardware limitations. These techniques rely on acquiring either one isotropic or several anisotropic low-resolution versions of each diffusionweighted image. In the present work, a variational formulation of joint superresolution of all diffusion-weighted images is presented which takes advantage of interrelations between similar diffusion-weighted images. These interrelations allow to use only one anisotropic low-resolution version of each diffusion-weighted image and to retrieve its missing high-frequency components from other images which have a similar q-space coordinate but a different resolution-anisotropy orientation. An acquisition scheme that entails complementary resolution-anisotropy among neighboring q-space points is introduced. High-resolution images are recovered at reduced scan time requirements compared to state-of-the-art anisotropic superresolution methods. The introduced principles of joint super-resolution thus have the potential to further improve the performance of super-resolution methods.
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Golkov, V., Sperl, J. I., Menzel, M. I., Sprenger, T., Tan, E. T., Marinelli, L., … Cremers, D. (2014). Joint Super-Resolution Using Only One Anisotropic Low-Resolution Image per q-Space Coordinate. In Mathematics and Visualization (Vol. 39, pp. 181–191). springer berlin. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11182-7_16
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