Simultaneous Multislice (SMS) has become a major acceleration technique in Human Connectome Project (HCP) to acquire high-resolution diffusion and functional MRI. Conventional reconstruction for SMS-EPI includes using traditional Nyquist ghost correction and slice GRAPPA that usually requires single-band (SB) reference scans. In this work, we introducea a novel reference-less Nyquist ghost correction approach and a new joint L1-spirit reconstruction algorithm without the need of SB reference scans. We evaluated the performance of the proposed method by acquiring 7T HCP-style diffusion and show that the proposed method can effectively suppress the strong residual aliasing/ghosting as observed for when using conventional reconstruction.
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