Radial echo-planar imaging.

A C Silva; E L Barbier; I J Lowe; A P Koretsky

doi:10.1006/jmre.1998.1547

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Radial echo-planar imaging.

A C Silva·E L Barbier·I J Lowe·A P Koretsky

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A new ultrafast magnetic resonance imaging pulse sequence named radial echo-planar imaging (rEPI) is introduced. The sequence is based on a modification of the echo-planar imaging (EPI) sequence to scan k-space radially, in an attempt to combine the speed of EPI with the benefits of radial sampling. Like in EPI, all the desired lines in k-space are scanned consecutively in opposite directions. The unique feature of this new sequence, however, is that the orientation of the readout gradient is incrementally rotated, so that all the echoes are refocused through the center of k-space. Therefore, rEPI data are acquired in a polar grid, and image reconstruction can be done either by means of filtered back-projection or by regridding the data to a Cartesian matrix followed by 2D Fourier transform. First results show that rEPI images can be acquired with the same speed and signal-to-noise ratio of EPI images. rEPI images are also shown to be less sensitive to off-resonance effects than EPI images. Further studies are underway to investigate the usefulness of rEPI for spectroscopic imaging and applications affected by motion.

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A C Silva, E L Barbier, I J Lowe, A P Koretsky. 1998. Radial echo-planar imaging.. https://doi.org/10.1006/jmre.1998.1547

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