Spiral MRI has several advantages over Cartesian MRI such as faster acquisitions and reduced demand in gradient. In parallel imaging, spiral trajectories are especially of great interest due to their inherent self-calibration capabilities, which is especially useful for dynamic imaging applications
Self-calibrated spiral SENSE
✍ Scribed by Yongxian Qian; Zhenghui Zhang; V. Andrew Stenger; Yi Wang
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 313 KB
- Volume
- 52
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0740-3194
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Current standard sensitivity‐encoded parallel imaging (SENSE) utilizes a fully sampled low‐resolution reference scan to estimate the coil sensitivities. This reference scan adds scan time and may introduce misregistration artifacts. The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of estimating the coil sensitivities for spiral SENSE directly from an undersampled k‐space center. The limited spatial frequencies of the coil sensitivities, and the undersampling beyond the Nyquist radius cause image artifacts. A point spread function (PSF) analysis and experiments on both phantoms and humans identified an optimal radius for the k‐space center by minimizing these image artifacts. The preliminary data indicate that self‐calibrated SENSE is as accurate as standard SENSE, which uses a fully sampled reference scan. Magn Reson Med 52:688–692, 2004. © 2004 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
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