RIP Sensing Matrices Construction for Sparsifying Dictionaries with Application to MRI Imaging

Practical applications of compressed sensing often restrict the choice of its two main ingredients. They may (i) prescribe the use of particular redundant dictionaries for certain classes of signals to become sparsely represented or (ii) dictate specific measurement mechanisms which exploit certain physical principles. On the problem of RIP measurement matrix design in compressed sensing with redundant dictionaries, we give a simple construction to derive sensing matrices whose compositions with a prescribed dictionary have with high probability the RIP in the klog(n/k) regime. Our construction thus provides recovery guarantees usually only attainable for sensing matrices from random ensembles with sparsifying orthonormal bases. Moreover, we use the dictionary factorization idea that our construction rests on in the application of magnetic resonance imaging, in which also the sensing matrix is prescribed by quantum mechanical principles. We propose a recovery algorithm based on transforming the acquired measurements such that the compressed sensing theory for RIP embeddings can be utilized to recover wavelet coefficients of the target image, and show its performance on examples from the fastMRI dataset.