Multi-shot EPI can achieve a high imaging resolution for Diffusion weighted MRI (DWI) by sampling a large k-space without increasing the degree of T2* blurring. However, its shot-to-shot phase error has to be corrected. Recently, a navigator-free correction method based on SENSE technique has been developed, assuming the phase error is spatially smooth among different DWI shots. In this work, we propose a SPIRiT-based method to correct the phase error and iteratively reconstruct navigator-free multi-shot EPI. Our results suggest it has the advantage of insensitivity to coil map bias and better SNR compared to the SENSE-based method.
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