In-room imaging and MR planning

Parallel Imaging

‘SENSE’ Method: Unfold aliased image

FT

PE /R gradient increments

1 C x y n Y S x y n Y − = +  +   0 ( , ) ( , A n j n

N

I x y

( , )

=

)

j

coil element sensitivity

FT

‘SMASH’ Method: Recreate missing k-space

Reduced scan time  1/R