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We propose a novel bias correction method for magnetic resonance (MR) imaging that uses complementary body coil and surface coil images. The former are spatially homogeneous but have low signal intensity; the latter provide excellent signal response but have large bias fields. We present a variational framework where we optimize an energy functional to estimate the bias field and the underlying image using both observed images. The energy functional contains smoothness-enforcing regularization for both the image and the bias field. We present extensions of our basic framework to a variety of imaging protocols. We solve the optimization problem using a computationally efficient numerical algorithm based on coordinate descent, preconditioned conjugate gradient, half-quadratic regularization, and multigrid techniques. We show qualitative and quantitative results demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed method in producing debiased and denoised MR images.
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Fan, A. et al. (2003). A Unified Variational Approach to Denoising and Bias Correction in MR. In: Taylor, C., Noble, J.A. (eds) Information Processing in Medical Imaging. IPMI 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2732. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45087-0_13
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