Jianing Pang1, 2, Behzad Sharif1, Troy LaBounty1, Louise E.J. Thomson1, Daniel S. Berman1, Debiao Li1, 3
1Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States; 2Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States; 3University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Proposed method combines sensitivity encoding and undersampled projection reconstruction trajectory to greatly accelerate whole-heart coronary MRA. No separate calibration scans are needed since the densely sampled k-space central region allows direct sensitivity map extraction from image data. Results show that the proposed method reduces aliasing, hence allows a shorter scan time by acquiring less k-space samples, while minimizing the reduction in image quality.
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