Abstract #0334
            High angularly resolved diffusion imaging with accelerated multi-shot acquisition and compressed sensing
                      Tzu-Cheng Chao                     1,2                    , Jr-Yuan George Chiou                     3                    , 						Stephan E. Maier                     3                    , and Bruno Madore                     3          
            
            1
           
           Department of Computer Science and 
						Information Engineering, National Cheng-Kung University, 
						Tainan, Taiwan,
           
            2
           
           Institute 
						of Medical Informatics, Naitonal Cheng-Kung University, 
						Tainan, Taiwan,
           
            3
           
           Department 
						of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard 
						Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
          
            
          High angularly resolved diffusion imaging is a 
						well-established strategy to help resolve fiber 
						crossings and enable tractography. Long scan times and 
						the presence of geometrical distortion in the resulting 
						images may be the main factors currently limiting its 
						clinical use. In the present work, methods are combined 
						for accelerating the acquisition process in k-space (to 
						reduce distortion) as well as in the diffusion-encoding 
						space (to reduce scan time). As compared to a 
						non-accelerated protocol, results are presented that 
						offer a four-fold reduction in distortion as well as a 
						reduction by about 40% in scan time.
         
				
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