Abstract #2883

Synthetic Target Combined with PILS (ST-PILS) for Improving SNR in Parallel Imaging

Meihan Wang¹, Weitian Chen², Michael Salerno¹, Peng Hu³, Christopher M. Kramer¹, Craig Meyer¹

¹Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States; ²GE; ³Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,

The abstract introduces a novel rapid reconstruction algorithm called ST(Synthetic Target)-PILS. It improves the original Synthetic Target method by achieving a higher SNR. We also studied reconstruction speed comparing to coil-by-coil reconstruction.