How are you trying to make it suck less? (I'm just curious: recently, I had three MRI scans while I was in hospital).

The variable cost of MRI is scan time. The MRI technician needs to make a tradeoff: more time for higher quality image. I'm trying to get a better quality in the same time.

Big picture idea: the MRI doesn't spit out pictures, it spits out encoded pictures (the Fourier transform). Using a simple model of what bodies look like, I can dramatically narrow the search space when decoding the pictures.

Wow, that sounds amazing. Don't forget to emphasise the benefit to the patient, as well. Spending two hours in a small, hot tube when you've just had heart surgery is not fun.