Abstract #2849

Automated tissue phase and QSM estimation from multichannel data

Berkin Bilgic¹, Jonathan R Polimeni¹, Lawrence L Wald¹, and Kawin Setsompop¹

¹Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, United States

An automated method for tissue phase and susceptibility estimation from multichannel data is proposed. Using ESPIRiT with virtual body coil calibration on multichannel data, phase-sensitive coil combination is achieved without an additional reference acquisition. This is shown to perform similarly to SNR-optimal Roemer combination that requires additional reference body and head coil acquisitions. Estimation of the tissue phase from the combined data is posed as a regularized inverse problem using the spherical mean value property. The extension of the technique to single-step Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping is also demonstrated on 2D, 3D and Simultaneous MultiSlice data.

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