Agus Priatna1, Eric Hatfield2, Samuel Chang2, Wilhelm Horger3, Stephan Kannengiesser3, Vamsi Narra2
1R&D Collaborations, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, St Louis, MO, USA; 2Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA; 3MR Applications Development, Siemens AG Healthcare Sector, Erlangen, Germany
Abdominal imaging for critically ill patients requires a short breath-hold scan time. Volumetric Interpolated Breath-hold Examination (VIBE) is routinely used for the dynamic contrast enhanced studies for characterizing lesion in the abdominal organs such as the liver and the kidneys. To further reduce the scan time, phase partial Fourier is often employed. However, phase partial Fourier and echo asymmetry increase blurring in the in-plane view. In this abstract, phase correction with projection onto convex sets (POCS) is used with the VIBE sequence in order to reduce the blurring and maintain the image quality