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Abstract #3763

Adapted Random 3D Sampling Patterns for CE-MRA

Florian Knoll1, Christian Clason2, Manuela Aschauer3, Franz Ebner3, Rudolf Stollberger1

1Institute of Medical Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria; 2Institute for Mathematics and Scientific Computing, University of Graz, Graz, Austria; 3Department of Radiology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria


Variable density 3D random sampling trajectories have great potential for subsampled CE-MR angiography techniques which deliver data sets with high contrast to noise ratio. The goal of this work was to present a parameter-free method to construct variable density sampling patterns which are tailored to angiography. Sampling patterns are generated with the use of a probability density function that is constructed by using measured k-space data as a reference, which automatically ensures an appropriate distribution of sample points.