Abstract #2672

A Solution to the Phase Problem in Adaptive Coil Combination

Souheil J. Inati¹, Michael Schacht Hansen², Peter Kellman²

¹National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States; ²National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States

We present an algorithm for adaptive combination of images from an array of MR coils that is suitable for applications in which complex valued images are required. This algorithm enforces smoothness in both the magnitude and phase of the estimated coil sensitivities and overcomes limitations inherent in previous methods.