Keywords: Cardiovascular: Cardiac function, Image acquisition: Fast imaging, Image acquisition: Reconstruction
Motivation: Real-time MRI can resolve cardiac and respiratory motion and has unique advantages for cardiac imaging. An overview of this active research area is necessary.
Goal(s): Introduce various reconstruction methods of accelerated real-time imaging and highlight its applications.
Approach: Undersampled real-time MRI reconstruction techniques improving the spatial-temporal resolution are covered, including k-t methods, parallel imaging, compressed sensing and low-rank methods, and recent advances that enable extreme acceleration.
Results: Real-imaging imaging has demonstrated superior performance in cardiac function evaluation, flow analysis, and tissue characterization, and MR-guided treatment.
Impact: The audience can grasp basic and advanced reconstruction techniques of real-time MRI and its potential applications.