Abstract #2677

Wideband Parallel Imaging

Fu-Hsing Wu¹, Edzer Wu², Li-Wei Kuo², Jyh-Horng Chen², Tzi-Dar Chiueh³

¹Interdisciplinary MRI/MRS Lab, , Department of Electrical Engineering,, Taipei, Taiwan; ²Interdisciplinary MRI/MRS Lab,, Department of Electrical Engineering,, Taipei, Taiwan; ³MicroSystem Research Lab,, Department of Electrical Engineering,, Taipei, Taiwan

Human lower limb images were successfully acquired with an acceleration rate of up to 8x by using wideband parallel imaging. The non-uniform multislice profile problem of this technique was successfully compensated to enhance the image quality of the outer slices. Also the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of this ultra fast imaging technique, wideband parallel imaging, was verified to be similar with that of gradient echo with GRAPPA.