Field maps are essential in spectroscopy, shimming, MR thermometry and geometric distortion correction. Minimizing the noise in acquired field maps is therefore potentially important to all of these applications. When using a multi-gradient echo, the choice of echo times has a marked effect on the noise on the acquired field maps. Here, we derive the optimal echo times which minimize the amount of noise in the resulting field maps.
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