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- Anuj Sharma, Sasidhar Tadanki, Marcin Jankiewicz, and William A Grissom.
- Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
- Magn Reson Med. 2014 Apr 1; 71 (4): 1470-7.
PurposeTo reconstruct accurate single- and multichannel Bloch-Siegert transmit radiofrequency (|B(1)(+)|) field maps from highly accelerated data.Theory And MethodsThe approach is based on the fact that the |B(1)(+)|-to-phase encoding pulse for each transmit coil and off-resonance frequency applies a unique phase shift to the same underlying image. This enables joint reconstruction of all images in a Bloch-Siegert acquisition from an augmented set of virtual receive coils, using any autocalibrated parallel imaging reconstruction method.ResultsSimulations with an eight channel transmit/receive array head coil at 7T show that accurate |B(1)(+)| maps can be produced at acceleration factors of 16× and 6× for Cartesian and spiral sampling, respectively. A phantom experiment with a six channel transverse electromagnetic (TEM) transceive array coil allowed accurate reconstruction at 16× acceleration. 7T in vivo experiments performed using 32 channel receive and two-channel transmit coils further demonstrate the proposed method's ability to produce high-quality |B(1)(+)| maps at accelerations of 32× and 8× for Cartesian and spiral trajectories, respectively. Reconstruction accuracy is improved using disjoint k-space sampling patterns between acquisitions.ConclusionThe proposed approach allows high acceleration factors in Bloch-Siegert |B(1)(+)| mapping and can significantly reduce the scan time requirements for mapping the |B(1)(+)| fields of transmit arrays.Copyright © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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