Meeting Banner
Abstract #2887

Parallel Imaging using a 3D Concentric Cylinders Trajectory

Kie Tae Kwon1, Holden H. Wu1,2, Michael Lustig1,3, Dwight G. Nishimura1

1Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States; 2Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States; 3Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States


The 3D concentric cylinders trajectory is an efficient and robust trajectory with fewer excitations than a comparable 3DFT trajectory and benign off-resonance effects. In this work, we applied an efficient parallel imaging strategy to 3D concentric cylinders, which decomposes the 3D non-Cartesian parallel imaging reconstruction into a series of 2D Cartesian reconstructions. Combined with the centric-ordered sampling scheme, this trajectory can be used to efficiently capture transient responses in a magnetization-prepared sequence.