Null space imaging: Nonlinear magnetic encoding fields designed complementary to receiver coil sensitivities for improved acceleration in parallel imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1166-1175

  Tam, Leo K ^a   Stockmann, Jason P ^a   Galiana, Gigi ^b   Constable, R Todd ^a,b  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

accelerated imaging; nonlinear gradient encoding; parallel imaging; receiver coil complementarity; singular value decomposition

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); IMAGE ACQUISITION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; VECTOR SPACES;

MULTIPLE RECEIVER COILS; PARALLEL IMAGE ACQUISITION; PARALLEL IMAGING; PARALLEL IMAGING METHOD; RECEIVER COIL; ROBUSTNESS TO NOISE; SENSITIVITY ENCODING; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS;

SIGNAL ENCODING;

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC FIELD; NOISE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION;

EID: 84866730095     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24114     Document Type: Article

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