Accelerated 3D dynamic upper-airway MRI in naturally sleeping obstructive sleep apnea patients.

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is characterized by breathing-related obstructions of the upper airway during sleep. In this work, we develop a motion resolved extra-dimension sparsity-based approach to resolve the kinematics of upper-airway in OSA during natural sleep. This approach is demonstrated on two adult OSA patients: one undergoing a Bi-directional positive airway pressure therapy during MRI scanning, and one without therapy