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Abstract #0104

Advances in accelerated imaging at 9.4T with electronically modulated time-varying receive sensitivities

Felix Glang1, Anton Nikulin1,2, Jonas Bause1, Rahel Heule1,2, Theodor Steffen1, Nikolai Avdievich1, and Klaus Scheffler1,2
1Magnetic Resonance Center, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, 2Department of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Synopsis

Previously, we have shown in simulations that electronically modulated time-varying receive sensitivities can improve parallel imaging reconstruction when fast modulations are applied during acquisition of k-space lines. Here, we demonstrate this concept experimentally with a prototype 8-channel reconfigurable receive coil, for which B1- modulation is achieved by fast switching PIN diodes in the receive loops. With this setup, MR measurements were performed in both phantom and human subject. Lower reconstruction errors and g-factors (~25% improvement for R=4) were observed for the case of rapidly switched sensitivities compared to conventional reconstruction with static sensitivities.

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