“Extreme MRI” chosen as ISMRM Reproducible Research pick

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“Extreme MRI: Large‐scale volumetric dynamic imaging from continuous non‐gated acquisitions,” a paper by EECS alumnus Frank Ong (B.S. ’13, Ph.D. ’18) and his advisor, Prof. Miki Lustig, has been chosen as October’s Reproducible Research pick by the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM).  The paper, in which the researchers attempt to reconstruct a large-scale dynamic image dataset while pushing reconstruction resolution to the limit, was chosen “because, in addition to sharing their code, the authors also shared a demo of their work in a Google Colab notebook.”  Lustig and Ong, now a research engineer at Stanford, participated in a Q&A in which they discussed how they became interested in MRI, what makes Extreme MRI “extreme,” the culture and value of open science, and why Lustig’s grad school paper on compressed sensing became the most cited paper in MRM.  ISMRM is an international nonprofit association that promotes research development in the field of magnetic resonance in medicine to help facilitate continuing education in the field.