Abstract #2872

Sinusoidal Perturbations Improve the Noise Behavior in Parallel EPI

Maximilian Haeberlin¹, Bertram Wilm¹, Christoph Barmet¹, Sebastian Kozerke¹, Georgios Katsikatsos¹, Klaas Paul Pruessmann¹

¹Department of Electrical Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Perturbing EPI phase encoding lines in a sinusoidal fashion improves the g-factor map for SENSE reconstruction. Concurrent field monitoring ensures artifact-free reconstruction for 3-fold undersampled data.