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Abstract #2705

Joint Inhomogeneitiy Estimation for Water-Fat Separation with Multi-Peak Fat Modeling

Wenmiao Lu1, Yi Lu2

1Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, SG, Singapore; 2Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States


Key to the success of phase-sensitive water-fat separation lies in robust estimation of field inhomogeneities. This work describes a novel field map estimation technique that systematically incorporates field map smoothness and a priori likelihood of field map values via belief propagation algorithm, which perform joint estimation of field inhomogeneities across 2D image grid.