Fat is shifted relative to water in opposite directions in the odd and even single-echo images obtained with bipolar multi-echo sequences. Considering this effect in a water-fat separation permits suppressing associated artifacts, but has required regularization so far to cope with a locally ill-conditioned inverse problem in k-space. In this work, an alternative approach to limiting noise amplification in the water-fat separation is proposed and explored, which promises to avoid the loss of image sharpness observed with regularization.
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