A new technique, termed Spiral Echo Planar Time-resolved Imaging (SKEPTIC), was developed to address both EPI’s geometric distortion and blurring and augment the recently introduced Echo Planar Time-resolved Imaging (EPTI). In SKEPTIC, the (2+1)-D k-t space is traversed using several matching out-in spirals within a single shot, and can benefit from additional rotated and time-jittered shots. The out-in multi-spiral trajectory is incoherent with field inhomogeneity phase evolution in both axes. This results in the ability to deliver single-shot 1.9mm2 in-plane resolution distortion-less, sharp multi-echo images with B0 and T2* mapping, and inherent motion, phase and B0-variation estimates for multi-shot imaging.
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