Philip James Beatty1, James H. Holmes2,
Shaorong Chang, Ersin Bayram, Jean H. Brittain3, Scott B. Reeder4
1Applied Science Laboratory, GE
Healthcare, Menlo Park, CA, United States; 2Applied Science
Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Waukesha, WI, United States; 3Applied
Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Madison, WI, United States; 4Departments
of Radiology and Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison,
WI, United States
Compared
to coil-by-coil reconstructions, Direct Virtual Coil (DVC) parallel imaging
reconstructions improve computational efficiency for high channel count coil
arrays by only synthesizing unacquired data for one virtual coil instead of
synthesizing a separate dataset for each physical coil. In this study, image quality is compared
between coil-by-coil and DVC parallel imaging reconstructions in the context
of contrast-enhanced liver imaging.
Results showed no significant difference in the image quality achieved
by the two reconstruction methods.