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Reducing sensitivity losses due to respiration and motion in accelerated echo planar imaging by reordering the autocalibration data acquisition.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To reduce the sensitivity of echo-planar imaging (EPI) auto-calibration signal (ACS) data to patient respiration and motion to improve the image quality and temporal signal-to-noise ratio (tSNR) of accelerated EPI time-series data.

Methods

ACS data for accelerated EPI are generally acquired using segmented, multishot EPI to distortion-match the ACS and time-series data. The ACS data are, therefore, typically collected over multiple TR periods, leading to increased vulnerability to motion and dynamic B0 changes. The fast low-angle excitation echo-planar technique (FLEET) is adopted to reorder the ACS segments so that segments within any given slice are acquired consecutively in time, thereby acquiring ACS data for each slice as rapidly as possible.

Results

Subject breathhold and motion phantom experiments demonstrate that artifacts in the ACS data reduce tSNR and produce tSNR discontinuities across slices in the accelerated EPI time-series data. Accelerated EPI data reconstructed using FLEET-ACS exhibit improved tSNR and increased tSNR continuity across slices. Additionally, image quality is improved dramatically when bulk motion occurs during the ACS acquisition.

Conclusion

FLEET-ACS provides reduced respiration and motion sensitivity in accelerated EPI, which yields higher tSNR and image quality. Benefits are demonstrated in both conventional-resolution 3T and high-resolution 7T EPI time-series data.

SUBMITTER: Polimeni JR

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4580494 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Reducing sensitivity losses due to respiration and motion in accelerated echo planar imaging by reordering the autocalibration data acquisition.

Polimeni Jonathan R JR Bhat Himanshu H Witzel Thomas T Benner Thomas T Feiweier Thorsten T Inati Souheil J SJ Renvall Ville V Heberlein Keith K Wald Lawrence L LL

Magnetic resonance in medicine 20150323 2

<h4>Purpose</h4>To reduce the sensitivity of echo-planar imaging (EPI) auto-calibration signal (ACS) data to patient respiration and motion to improve the image quality and temporal signal-to-noise ratio (tSNR) of accelerated EPI time-series data.<h4>Methods</h4>ACS data for accelerated EPI are generally acquired using segmented, multishot EPI to distortion-match the ACS and time-series data. The ACS data are, therefore, typically collected over multiple TR periods, leading to increased vulnerab ...[more]

PMID: 25809559

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Reducing sensitivity losses due to respiration and motion in accelerated echo planar imaging by reordering the autocalibration data acquisition.

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Reducing sensitivity losses due to respiration and motion in accelerated echo planar imaging by reordering the autocalibration data acquisition.

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