Regularly incremented phase encoding - MR fingerprinting (RIPE-MRF) for enhanced motion artifact suppression in preclinical cartesian MR fingerprinting.
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SUBMITTER: Anderson CE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5809208 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
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Regularly incremented phase encoding - MR fingerprinting (RIPE-MRF) for enhanced motion artifact suppression in preclinical cartesian MR fingerprinting.
Anderson Christian E CE Wang Charlie Y CY Gu Yuning Y Darrah Rebecca R Griswold Mark A MA Yu Xin X Flask Chris A CA
Magnetic resonance in medicine 20170810 4
<h4>Purpose</h4>The regularly incremented phase encoding-magnetic resonance fingerprinting (RIPE-MRF) method is introduced to limit the sensitivity of preclinical MRF assessments to pulsatile and respiratory motion artifacts.<h4>Methods</h4>As compared to previously reported standard Cartesian-MRF methods (SC-MRF), the proposed RIPE-MRF method uses a modified Cartesian trajectory that varies the acquired phase-encoding line within each dynamic MRF dataset. Phantoms and mice were scanned without ...[more]
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