A Fast Self-Learning Subspace Reconstruction Method for Non-Uniformly Sampled Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

• Main Authors: Zhangren Tu, Huiting Liu, Jiaying Zhan, Di Guo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020-06-01
• Series: Applied Sciences
• Subjects: nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; non-uniform sampling; self-learning subspace; matrix factorization; acceleration
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/11/3939

Multidimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is one of the most crucial detection tools for molecular structure analysis and has been widely used in biomedicine and chemistry. However, the development of NMR spectroscopy is hampered by long data collection time. Non-uniform sampling empowers rapid signal acquisition by collecting a small subset of data. Since the sampling rate is lower than that of the Nyquist sampling ratio, undersampling artifacts arise in reconstructed spectra. To obtain a high-quality spectrum, it is necessary to apply reasonable prior constraints in spectrum reconstruction models. The self-learning subspace method has been shown to possess superior advantages than that of the state-of-the-art low-rank Hankel matrix method when adopting high acceleration in data sampling. However, the self-learning subspace method is time-consuming due to the singular value decomposition in iterations. In this paper, we propose a fast self-learning subspace method to enable fast and high-quality reconstructions. Aided by parallel computing, the experiment results show that the proposed method can reconstruct high-fidelity spectra but spend less than 10% of the time required by the non-parallel self-learning subspace method.