Self-Supervised Diffusion Prior–Based Network for Simultaneous Multi-Slice MRI Reconstruction

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  • 1. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; 2. Paul C. Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China; 3. Research Center for Medical AI, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China; 4. Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare Co., Ltd., Shanghai 201807, China; 5. National Innovation Center for Advanced Medical Devices, Shenzhen 518055, China

Received date: 2026-07-27

  Revised date: 2026-08-25

  Accepted date: 2026-09-15

  Online published: 2026-09-15

Abstract

When simultaneous multi-slice (SMS) imaging is combined with in-plane undersampling, reconstruction must unfold superimposed slices and remove aliasing simultaneously from a highly folded, undersampled K-space. To address the fixed-strength data consistency and the prior-scan mismatch in existing diffusion-based reconstructions, an SMS reconstruction method combining geometry-gated data consistency with test-time low-rank adaptation is proposed. At each reverse sampling step, the data-consistency correction is decomposed with respect to the local tangent space of the denoiser: the tangential component is retained in full, whereas the normal component is admitted through an adaptive gate, suppressing off-manifold artefacts. Low-rank branches are further attached to the score network and updated at inference using a measurement-consistency loss alone, with the backbone frozen. Experiments on simulated fastMRI brain T2-weighted data show that the proposed method outperforms five comparison methods under all conditions, with PSNR gains of 2.27~5.45 dB over the second-best method and a more graceful degradation as acceleration increases.

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WANG Haobo, LIU Congcong, WU Xingyang, ZHOU Shuo, FANG Fuyi, YANG Xing, CUI Zhuoxu, WANG Haifeng . Self-Supervised Diffusion Prior–Based Network for Simultaneous Multi-Slice MRI Reconstruction[J]. Chinese Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 0 : 0 . DOI: 10.11938/cjmr2026-3229

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