Research on Lung Multi-Nuclear MRI Reconstruction Method Based on Flow Matching Model

  • Li Pengzhan ,
  • Xiao Sa ,
  • Liu Jinghan ,
  • Zhou Xin
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  • 1. School of Biomedical Engineering, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510000, China; 2. State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China; 3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Received date: 2026-03-03

  Revised date: 2026-04-24

  Accepted date: 2026-05-18

  Online published: 2026-05-18

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Abstract

Hyperpolarized 129Xe and 1H magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) visualize lung structure and ventilation, enabling early diagnosis. However, 129Xe imaging faces low signal noise ratio (SNR), accelerated sampling, and multinuclear heterogeneity. Existing methods have clear limits: regression models outputs are over-smoothed, losing high-frequency details; mainstream generative models are noise-sensitive, artifact-prone, and slow; multinuclear heterogeneity is unmodeled, underusing multimodal complementarity. We propose a flow-matching framework for multinuclear lung MRI reconstruction. It integrates regression and generative strengths for better metric–fidelity trade-off, efficient inference, noise robustness, and improved complementary information utilization, supporting accelerated clinical multinuclear MRI.

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Li Pengzhan , Xiao Sa , Liu Jinghan , Zhou Xin . Research on Lung Multi-Nuclear MRI Reconstruction Method Based on Flow Matching Model[J]. Chinese Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 0 : 0 . DOI: 10.11938/cjmr2026-3210

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