Abstract #0892

Joint Calibrationless Multi-slice Multi-echo Parallel Imaging Reconstruction for Abdominal T2* Mapping

Xiaochuan Wu^1,2, Zheyuan Yi^1,2,3, Yilong Liu^1,2, Fei Chen³, Yanqiu Feng⁴, and Ed X. Wu^1,2

¹Laboratory of Biomedical Imaging and Signal Processing, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, ²Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, ³Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China, ⁴School of Biomedical Engineering, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

T2* mapping in abdominal imaging is challenging due to respiration motions that can result in severe artifacts and affect the accuracy of T2* quantification. Traditional simultaneous autocalibrating and k-space estimation (SAKE) provides a calibrationless parallel imaging approach to reduce the image acquisition time. However, SAKE does not utilize the highly sharable image contents and coil sensitivities among multi-slice multi-echo data. In this study, we proposed a joint calibrationless reconstruction of multi-slice multi-echo images from undersampled MR data for abdominal imaging. Results demonstrated that the resulting T2* maps were in excellent agreement with those from the fully sampled data.

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