MOCCA: A Fast Algorithm for Parallel MRI Reconstruction Using Model Based Coil Calibration

Abstract: We propose a new fast algorithm for simultaneous recovery of the coil sensitivities and of the magnetization image from incomplete Fourier measurements in parallel MRI. Our approach is based on a parameter model for the coil sensitivities using bivariate trigonometric polynomials of small degree. The derived MOCCA algorithm has low computational complexity of $O(N_c N^2 \log N)$ for $N \times N$ images and $N_c$ coils and achieves very good performance for incomplete MRI data. We present a complete mathematical analysis of the proposed reconstruction method. Further, we show that MOCCA achieves similarly good reconstruction results as ESPIRiT with a considerably smaller numerical effort which is due to the employed parameter model. Our numerical examples show that MOCCA can outperform several other reconstruction methods.