My current research interests involve variouse problems in Magnetic Resonance Imaging. In general, anything that has a spin and involves a magnet is something of interest to me.
However, here are some of the topics I've been working on lately:
  • "Compressed Sensing" in MRI - reconstruction of images from under-sampled data with sparsity constraints. Code .
  • Super field of view problems in MRI - generalization of sensitivity encoding (SENSE) for solving many problems in MR such as artifact correction, fast imaging and more. More details soon....
  • RF pulse design - design of wide-band saturation pulses, spectral spatial pulses, optimallity in rf pulse design. More details soon...
  • Time optimal gradient design - generation of optimal gradient waveforms for imaging and excitation.
  • BOSS fMRI - a steady state method for functional imaging.

    • Publications

    Software

    1. SparseMRI - A collection of matlab functions, scripts and demos of compressed sensing MRI.

    2. tOptGrad_V0.1 - A collection of matlab fuctions, scripts and demos for time-optimal gradient design. Demos include spiral waveforms, circular waveforms and rosette waveforms.

    Journal

    1. Michael Lustig and John Pauly "SPIR-iT: Iterative Self Consistent Parallel Imaging Reconstruction from Arbitrary k-Space", 2009, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Accepted, in revision

    2. D. Lee, M. Lustig, W.A. Grissom and J.M. Pauly "Time-Optimal Design for Multidimensional and Parallel Transmit Variable-Rate Selective Excitation" 2008, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2009 Jun; 61(6):1471-9. doi:10.1002/mrm.21950

      3. Michael Lustig "SPARSE MRI", Ph.D Thesis, Stanford University, August 2008

    3. P.E.Z Larson, M. Lustig and D.G. Nishimura "Anisotropic Field of View Shapes for Improved PROPELLER Imaging" 2009, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2009 May; 27(4):470-9. doi:10.1016/j.mri.2008.07.023

    4. P.E.Z Larson, A. Kerr, A. P. Chen, M. Lustig, M. L. Zierhut, S. Hu, C.H. Cunningham, J.M Pauly, J. Kurhanewicz, and D. B. Vigneron "Multiband Excitation Pulses for Hyperpolarized 13C Dynamic Chemical Shift Imaging" Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2008 doi:10.1016/j.jmr.2008.06.010.

    5. T. Cukur, M. Lustig, D.G. Nishimura "Improving Non-Contrast-Enhanced Steady-State Free Precession Angiography with Compressed Sensing" 2008, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2009 May;61(5):1122-31.doi:10.1002/mrm.21907

    6. T. Cukur, M. Lustig, D.G. Nishimura "Multiple-profile Homogeneouse Image Combination: Application to Phase-cycled SSFP and Multi-coil Imaging" 2008, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2008 Sep; 60(3):732-8 doi:10.1002/mrm.21720.

    7. C.H Cunningham, A. P. Chen, M. Lustig, J Lupo, D. Xu , J. Kurhanewicz, R. E. Hurd, J. M. Pauly, S. J. Nelson and D B. Vigneron "Pulse Sequence for Dynamic Volumetric Imaging of Hyperpolarized Metabolic Products" 2008, Journal of Magnetic Resonance,2008;193(1), pp. 139-146 doi:10.1016/j.jmr.2008.03.012

    8. S. Hu, M. Lustig, A. P. Chen, J. Crane, A. Kerr, D. A.C. Kelley, R. Hurd, J. Kurhanewicz, S. J. Nelson, J. M. Pauly, D. B. Vigneron "Compressed Sensing for Resolution Enhancement of Hyperpolarized 13C Flyback 3D-MRSI" Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2008;192(2), pp. 258-264 doi:10.1016/j.jmr.2008.03.003. PDF

    9. S.-J. Kim, K. Koh, M. Lustig, S.Boyd and D. Gorinevsky, "A Method for l_1-regularized least squares", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 2007 Dec.;1(4): 606-617

    10. M. Lustig, D.L Donoho J.M. Santos and J.M Pauly "Compressed Sensing MRI" 2007, A high-level review, mostly for non-MR falks. A shorter version appeared in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.

    11. M. Lustig, D.L Donoho and J.M Pauly "Sparse MRI: The Application of Compressed Sensing for Rapid MR Imaging" Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2007 Dec.; 58(6):1182-1195 On-line .

    12. M. Lustig, S-J Kim and J. M. Pauly "A Fast Method for Designing Time-Optimal Gradient Waveforms for Arbitrary k-Space Trajectories" IEEE TMI, June 2008;27(6), pp. 866-873. doi:10.1109/TMI.2008.922699

    13. J. Santos, C. Cunningham, M. Lustig, B. Hargreaves, B. Hu, D. Nishimura, J. Pauly "Single breath-hold whole-heart MRA using variable-density spirals at 3T." Magn Reson Med. 2006 Feb;55(2):371-9.

    Conference

    1. M. Lustig, M. Alley, S. Vasanawala, D.L Donoho and J.M. Pauly Autocalibrating Parallel Imaging Compressed Sensing using L1 SPIR-iT with Poisson-Disc Sampling and Joint Sparsity Constraints ISMRM Workshop on Data Sampling and Image Reconstruction, Sedona '09

    2. M. Lustig, J.M. Pauly "Further Advances in Parallel Imaging Reconstruction from Arbitrary kSpace Trajectories" ISMRM Workshop on Non Cartesian MRI '07

    3. M. Lustig, D.L. Donoho, J.M. Pauly "Multi-Slice Compressed Sensing MRI" ISMRM '07

    4. M. Lustig, J.M. Pauly "Iterative GRAPPA: a General Solution for the GRAPPA Reconstruction from Arbitrary k-Space Sampling" ISMRM '07

    5. M. Lustig, C.H. Cunningham, B.S Hu, J.M. Pauly "Multiple Narrow-Band Excitations Spiral Imaging" ISMRM '07

    6. M. Lustig, E. Daniyaldaze, C.H. Cunningham, J.M. Pauly "Butterfly MRI: A Self Navigating Cartesian Trajectory" ISMRM '07

    7. M. Lustig, J.M. Santos, D.L. Donoho, J.M Pauly "k-t SPARSE: High Frame Rate Dynamic MRI Exploiting Spatio-Temporal Sparsity" ISMRM '06

    8. M. Lustig, D.L. Donoho, J.M. Pauly "Rapid MR Imaging with Compressed Sensing and Randomly Under-Sampled 3DFT Trajectories" ISMRM '06

    9. C.H. Cunningham, D.B. Vigneron, A.P. Chen, D. Xu, M. Lustig, D.A. Kelly, J.M. Pauly "Spectral-spatial Excitation and Refocusing for Reduced Volume Mis-Registration at 7 Tesla", ISMRM '06

    10. M. Lustig, C.H. Cunningham, J.M. Pauly "A Monte-Carlo Algorithm for Designing Ultra-High Time-Bandwidth, Minimum Peak |B1|, Selective Saturation and Inversion RF-Pulses", ENC '06

    11. P.E.Z. Larson, M. Lustig, J. Liu, B. Wandell, J.M. Pauly "High Resolution Retinotopy with Transition-band SSFP (BOSS) fMRI" HBM '06

    12. M. Lustig, J.M. Santos, D.L. Donoho and J.M. Pauly "Rapid MR Angiography with Randomly Under-Sampled 3DFT Trajectories and Non-Linear Reconstruction" In Proc. of SCMR, 2006, 9th annual meeting, Miami FL.

    13. M. Lustig,J.M Santos, J.H. Lee, D.L. Donoho, J.M. Pauly "Compressed Sensing for Rapid MR Imaging" in Proc. of SPARS'05

    14. M. Lustig, J. santos, J.M. Pauly "a Super Field of View Method for SSFP Banding Artifact Correction" in Proc. of the ISMRM '05

    15. M. Lustig, J.H. Lee, D.L. Donoho, J.M. Pauly "Faster Imaging with Randomly Perturbed Undersampled Spirals and L_1 Reconstruction" in Proc. of the ISMRM '05

    16. M. Lustig, J.Tsaig, J.H. Lee, D. Donoho,   " Fast Spiral Fourier Transform for Iterative MR Image Reconstruction", in Proc. IEEE ISBI'04.

    17. Y. Cassuto, M. Lustig, G. Leifman, T. Mizrahi, E. Borenstein, S. Mizrachi, N. Peleg,  "Real Time Implementation for Digital Watermarking in Audio Signals Using Perceptual Masking", paper for the 3rd European DSP Education and Research Conference, ESIEE, Noisy Le Grand, Paris (September 2000).

    Patents 

    1. M. Lustig, S. Hu, D. Vigniron and J. M Pauly "Blip design for random sampling compressed sensing of flyback 3D-MRSI with application to Hyperpolarized 13C" US patent Pending

    2. M. Lustig and J. M Pauly, "An Auto-calibrating Parallel Imaging Reconstruction Method from Arbitrary k-Space" US patent Pending.

    3. M. Lustig, C.H. Cunningham, J.M Pauly "Butterfly: A Self Navigating Cartesian Trajectory" US Patent pending

    4. M. Lustig, S-J Kim, J.M. Pauly "A Fast Method for Designing Time-Optimal Gradient Waveforms for Arbitrary k-Space Trajectories" US Patent pending

    5. M. Lustig, J. M Santos, D. L Donoho and J. M Pauly, " k-t SPARSE: High Frame Rate Dynamic MRI Exploiting Spatio-Temporal Sparsity" US Provisional Patent Pending.

    6. M. Lustig, J.M. Pauly "Artifact Reduction in SSFP MRI Using Super Field of View Reconstruction" US Patent 7,132,828

    Miscellaneous 

    1. Yuval Cassuto, Michael Lustig and Shay Mizrachi,  "Real-Time Digital Watermarking System for Audio Signals Using Perceptual Masking",  $100,000 prize winning paper for the TI (Texas Instruments) DSP and Analog Challenge, Dallas 2001.

    Technical and general Reports

    1. M. Lustig, K. Ron & I. Yavne "Robust 2d Optical Flow Feature Tracker" Technical Report, Computer Science Dep. Technion IIT - PDF

    2. M. Lustig, Y. Shabtai(Lustig), "Keystroke attack on SSH - overview" Project Report, EE Dep. Technion IIT - PDF

    3. M. Lustig, Y. Cassuto "Robust DSS Signatures - overview" Overview Report, Technion IIT -  PDF

     

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