In Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF), the quality of the parameter maps depends on the encoding capability of the variable flip angle train. In this work we show how the dimensionality reduction technique t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) can be used to obtain insight into the encoding capability of different MRF sequences by embedding high-dimensional MRF dictionaries into a lower-dimensional space and visualizing them as colormaps. Experiments on example dictionaries perform comparison between different sequences and assess the effect of B1+ variations on the encoding capability.
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