Combined diffusion-relaxometry has demonstrated promising capability to noninvasively probe tissue microstructure by joint modeling of relaxation coefficients and diffusivity. Our recent work has introduced a sequence based on the time-division multiplexing technique to accelerate the acquisition of relaxation-diffusion MRI. In this work, we further developed the TDM-EPI sequence by integrating ky-shifted k-space sampling strategies for data acquired at different TEs. Moreover, we implemented and compared several reconstruction methods to integrate complementary k-space samples to joint estimate images at different TEs. The results showed that the joint reconstruction approach can improve image quality and reduce artifact compared with conventional reconstruction methods.
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