Abstract #4777
Local Signal Recovery in Clinical FLASH Imaging with Parallel Transmission
Rainer Schneider 1,2 , Christopher Gliemli 3 , Christian Geppert 3 , Jens Haueisen 2 , Fernando Boada 4 , and Josef Pfeuffer 1
1
MR Application Development, Siemens
Healthcare, Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany,
2
Institute
of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, TU Ilmenau,
Ilmenau, Thuringia, Germany,
3
Siemens
Healthcare, MR Research & Development, New York, NY,
United States,
4
NYU
Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, United States
In clinical 3T imaging, gradient-echo-based sequences
oftensuffer from signal loss induced by patient specific
susceptibility artifacts. To tackle this problem, a
recently proposed local signal recovery method using
parallel transmission was transferred to a clinical
setup. The approach was further extended by B1
inhomogeneity correction and evaluated with human
in-vivo experiments using the common FLASH sequence.
Signals could be recovered up to 50% in frontal orbital
cortex, while maintaining the SNR level. Full signal
recovery could be achieved, if lower SNR levels are
tolerated.
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