Recently, novel Compressed Sensing methods have been proposed that promise very high undersampling factors in the spatial as well as temporal domain. However, it is unclear if these advanced reconstruction techniques preserve the true dynamics of the contrast enhancement, which otherwise could have significant impact on the quantitative analysis of the contrast-agent kinetics. In the latter case, a noisy image that reflects the true underlying dynamics would be more favorable than a beautified image that shows less noise and undersampling artifacts but deviates from the true course of contrast enhancement. To investigate these effects, we developed an extension to the well-known analytical Shepp-Logan phantom in the temporal dimension to simulate contrast enhancement in arteries and in healthy and pathological tissue. Unlike image-based approaches, a k-space based phantom allows for accurate sampling along arbitrary trajectories. This enables assessing the influence of k-space sampling strategies as well as the evaluation of reconstruction techniques for dynamic imaging. MATLAB source code for the phantom and for the generation of the contrast dynamics will be made available online here. |
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