Ferdinand Schweser1,2, Marie Atterbury1,3,
Andreas Deistung1, Berengar Wendel Lehr1, Karsten
Sommer1,4, Jrgen R. Reichenbach1
1Medical Physics Group,
Dept. of Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology 1, Jena University
Hospital, Jena, Germany; 2School of Medicine, Friedrich Schiller
University of Jena, Jena, Germany; 3Dept. of Physics, Brown
University, Providence, RI, Germany; 4School of Physics &
Astronomy, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany
In this contribution we investigate the effect of the B1 radio frequency (RF) signal induced phase offset on the results of two recently presented preprocessing methods for GRE phase data, namely SHARP and PDF. Furthermore, it is shown that these methods are mathematically equivalent.