Liyong Chen1, 2, Audrey Chang1, 2, Junqian Xu3, Steen Moeller3, Edward J. Auerbach3, An Thanh Vu1, 2, Kamil Ugurbil3, Essa Yacoub3, David
1Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States; 2Advanced MRI Technologies, Sebastopol, CA, United States; 3Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR), Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Multiplexed-EPI is performed using different number of images readout simultaneous in the EPI echo trains. Compared in whole brain imaging, slice accelerations (M) of 6 to 48 images per echo train were evaluated. Results showed observable trade-offs in image quality at highest accelerations using single echo trains to scan the whole brain and good quality images using two or three echo trains.