Alexander D. Cohen1, Andrew S. Nencka1,2, and Yang Wang1,2
1Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States, 2Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States
In this study
a novel technique was tested combining multiband and multishot imaging for functional
MRI at 7T. Hadamard and segmented multi-shot encoding were applied to yield
short TR, reduced distortion fMRI images without the need for parallel imaging
reconstruction techniques. Furthermore, acquiring segmented data allows for datasets to be reconstructed with effective in-plane
accelerations up to the number of segments. Thus, one can reconstruct a dataset
with higher SNR and the reduced geometric distortion of a highly accelerated acquisition.
