Abstract #2879

Combination of Partial k-Space & Direct Virtual Coil Parallel Imaging

Philip James Beatty¹, Ananth Madhuranthakam², Shaorong Chang³, Ersin Bayram³, Jean H. Brittain⁴

¹Global Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Thornhill, Ontario, Canada; ²Global Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Boston, MA, United States; ³GE Healthcare, Madison, WI, United States; ⁴Global Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Madison, WI, United States

Partial k-space acquisition is an important technique to reduce scan time or shorten echo time and is often used together with parallel imaging. In this work, we combine a partial k-space acquisition with the Direct Virtual Coil (DVC) parallel imaging reconstruction method. In vivo imaging results compare coil-by-coil reconstruction results to DVC.