Xiao Chen1, Christopher C. Cline1,2, Boris Mailhe1, Qiu Wang1, and Mariappan S. Nadar1
1Medical Imaging Technologies, Siemens Healthcare, Princeton, NJ, United States, 2Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
In MRF, a single image is reconstructed from data
collected from each short TR due to the non-repeatable magnetization history. The
highly-undersampled single-shot imaging leads to high levels of noise and
artifacts. In this study, an SR preparation module was introduced to MRF, enabling
multi-shot MRF without a waiting time for magnetization recovery. The SR
prepared multi-shot MRF can achieve similar or even better accuracy than the original
single-shot IR prepared MRF with the same amount of data collected.