Bipolar acquisition in abdominal multi-echo quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) could reduce echo-spacing and total scan time. However, the bipolar acquisition introduces phase error between odd and even echoes. A phase correction method in image domain was proposed to address this problem. We demonstrated the feasibility of generating a quantitative susceptibility map in human abdomen using bipolar multi-echo GRE sequence. Quantification analysis showed an excellent agreement between bipolar and unipolar methods.
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