Super-resolution GAN network for fast quantification of proton density mapping from highly accelerated synthetic magnetic resonance imaging

Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI) can reflect the inherent characteristics of human tissue of relaxation time and proton density, and has important value for clinical diagnostic. However, long scan times limit the use of qMRI. We propose a method to optimize fast qMRI using a super-resolution generative adversarial network, thereby reducing scan time and obtaining accurate quantitative values. The results showed that this method was able to improve the image quality of qMRI, and the quantitative values were not significantly different from those obtained in conventional acquisitions.