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Abstract #3508

A Method for Automatically Determining an Optimal Kernel Size in ESPIRiT Reconstruction

Jong Bum Son1, Colleen Costelloe2, Tao Zhang1,3, and Jingfei Ma1

1Imaging Physics Department, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States, 2Diagnostic Radiology Department, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States, 3GE Healthcare Technologies, Waukesha, WI, United States

ESPIRiT is a hybrid-domain parallel imaging method which can estimate the coil-sensitivity information from the k-space calibration matrix. In ESPIRiT, the calibration matrix is constructed by sliding a window through the fully sampled data region of auto-calibrating signals. Presently, the kernel size of the sliding window determining the performance of ESPIRiT reconstruction is empirically chosen, even though an optimal value may vary depending on a combination of scan parameters and scan configurations. In this work, we developed an automatic data-driven method for determining an optimal kernel size in ESPIRiT to reduce the performance variation of ESPIRiT reconstructions.

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