Meeting Banner
Abstract #2892

Virtual Coil Phase Determination Using Region Growing: Description and Application to Direct Virtual Coil Parallel Imaging Reconstruction

Philip James Beatty1, Shaorong Chang2, Ersin Bayram2, Ananth Madhuranthakam3, Huanzhou Yu1, Scott B. Reeder4, Jean H. Brittain5

1Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, CA, United States; 2GE Healthcare, Waukesha, WI, United States; 3Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Boston, MA, United States; 4Departments of Radiology and Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States; 5Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Madison, WI, United States


Setting the phase of the virtual coil in the Direct Virtual Coil (DVC) reconstruction technique is both critical to achieving a high quality reconstruction and challenging, especially with high channel count arrays. In this work, a region growing approach to setting the virtual coil phase is described and evaluated in the context of the DVC technique. We demonstrate that the approach is able to generate sensible virtual coil phase even in challenging situations.

Keywords