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Abstract #0233

Field-Map Combination Method for Phase-Cycled bSSFP using Inherent Bo Mapping

Anjali Datta1, Dwight Nishimura1, and Corey Baron2
1Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, 2Western University, London, ON, Canada

Synopsis

Phase-cycled bSSFP enables off-resonance-robust bSSFP imaging. Conventional phase-cycle combination methods weight brighter phase-cycles more, assuming that passband signal is brighter than off-resonant signal. However, near-band signal can be hyperintense, most notably for flowing spins, so traditional methods fail to mitigate these artifacts. Incorporating knowledge of Bo enables inclusion of only passband signal, and exclusion of dark bands and near-band hyperintense artifacts. Using a golden-angle radial trajectory for a free-breathing, phase-cycled acquisition enables reconstruction of a Bo-map time series without any additional scans. This facilitates field-map-based combination throughout the respiratory and cardiac cycles, resulting in substantially reduced hyperintense artifacts than root-sum-of-squares.

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