Magnetic resonance fingerprinting is an efficient quantitative MRI paradigm, which simultaneously acquires multiple MR tissue parameters. Recently, simultaneous multislice (SMS) acquisition has been used to further speed up MRF experiments. In this abstract, we present a maximum likelihood formulation to enable improved SMS-MRF reconstruction. We further describe an algorithm based on variable splitting, the alternating direction method of multipliers, and the variable projection method to solve the resulting nonlinear and nonconvex optimization problem. Representative results are shown to demonstrate that the proposed method enables more accurate MR tissue parameter maps compared to the recent SMS-MRF approach utilizing direct pattern matching.
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