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ArticleMagnetic resonance in medicine2026

Fast and Robust Diffusion Posterior Sampling for MR Image Reconstruction Using the Preconditioned Unadjusted Langevin Algorithm.

Moritz Blumenthal, Tina Holliber, Jonathan I Tamir, Martin Uecker

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Moritz BlumenthalInstitute of Biomedical Imaging, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2127-8365
Tina HolliberInstitute of Biomedical Imaging, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0782-244X
Jonathan I TamirChandra Family Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA.
Martin UeckerInstitute of Biomedical Imaging, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8850-809X

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Austrian Science Fund 10.55776/F100800National Science Foundation CCF-2239687
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purposeThe Unadjusted Langevin Algorithm (ULA) in combination with diffusion models can generate high quality MRI reconstructions with uncertainty estimation from highly undersampled k-space data. However, sampling methods such as diffusion posterior sampling (DPS) or likelihood annealing suffer from long reconstruction times and the need for parameter tuning. The purpose of this work is to develop a robust sampling algorithm with fast convergence. THEORY AND

methodsIn the reverse diffusion process used for sampling the posterior, the exact likelihood is multiplied with the diffused prior at all noise scales. To overcome the issue of slow convergence, preconditioning is used. The method is trained on fastMRI data and tested on retrospectively undersampled brain data of a healthy volunteer.

resultsFor posterior sampling in Cartesian and non-Cartesian accelerated MRI the new approach outperforms annealed sampling and DPS in terms of reconstruction speed and sample quality.

conclusionThe proposed exact likelihood with preconditioning enables rapid and reliable posterior sampling across various MRI reconstruction tasks without the need for parameter tuning.

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AlgorithmsBrainDiffusion Magnetic Resonance ImagingImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMagnetic Resonance ImagingBayes TheoremHumansImage EnhancementReproducibility of ResultsBayesian reconstructiondiffusion posterior samplingimage reconstructionMRIparallel imaging

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