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Abstract #4957

A Study of Wideband MR Imaging: SNR and CNR

Edzer Lienson Wu1,2, Jyh-Horng Chen, 23, Tzi-Dar Chiueh3

1Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; 2Interdisciplinary MRI/MRS Lab, Taipei, Taiwan; 3Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan


Most of the MR image accelerating methods suffer from degradation of acquired images, which is often correlated with the degree of acceleration. However, Wideband MRI is a novel technique that transcends such flaws. In this study we demonstrate that Wideband MRI is capable of obtaining images with identical quality as conventional MR images in terms of SNR, CNR (contrast-to-noise ratio) and image sharpness, while using only half the total scan time (Wideband factor W=2) of normal MRI sequence.