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CNR improvement of MP2RAGE from slice encoding directional acceleration
- Title
- CNR improvement of MP2RAGE from slice encoding directional acceleration
- Authors
- Shin, Wanyong; Shin, Taehoon; Oh, Se-Hong; Lowe, Mark J.
- Ewha Authors
- 신태훈
- SCOPUS Author ID
- 신태훈
- Issue Date
- 2016
- Journal Title
- MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
- ISSN
- 0730-725X
1873-5894
- Citation
- MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 779 - 784
- Keywords
- MP2RAGE; MPRAGE; 2D acceleration; SPIRiT; ultra-high filed; 7 T
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
- Indexed
- SCIE; SCOPUS
- Document Type
- Article
- Abstract
- Purpose: While MP2RAGE shows the potential to generate B-1 insensitive T-1 contrast, the long TR of MP2RAGE (>= 6 s at 7 T) is essential to provide the large dynamic range of apparent T-1 relaxation for dual inversion time acquisitions. We present a 2 direction (2D) accelerated MP2RAGE, which provides an increased flip angle while maintaining similar dynamic recovery as 1D accelerated MP2RAGE. Method: Simulations were conducted to optimize 2D accelerated MP2RAGE parameters and healthy subjects were scanned with 1D and 2D accelerated MP2RAGE at 7 T. Images were compared visually and contrast to noise (CNR) between brain tissues was measured. Result: Simulations showed that CNR is primarly determined by the TR, followed by the number of the first partition encoding steps in MP2RAGE. Keeping TR constant, a smaller number of partition encoding steps increases the achievable maximal CNR. In-vivo 2D MP2RAGE improves CNR between white and gray matters by 9% when compared to 1D accelerated MP2RAGE with identical voxel size. Conclusion: We presented 2D accelated MP2RAGE at 7 T with the increased flip angle. We show that this leads to CNR improvement, and consequently a reduction of scan time to be compared to 1D accelerated MP2RAGE. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.mri.2016.03.014
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- 공과대학 > 휴먼기계바이오공학과 > Journal papers
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