Three‐dimensional spiral fMRI technique: a comparison with 2D spiral acquisition

S Lai, GH Glover - Magnetic resonance in medicine, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
A comparison study was performed of 3D and 2D spiral k‐space fMRI techniques using
BOLD contrast with a 4.25‐min finger‐tapping task paradigm. The 3D sequence uses the …

Open‐source MR imaging and reconstruction workflow

M Veldmann, P Ehses, K Chow… - Magnetic resonance …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose This work presents an end‐to‐end open‐source MR imaging workflow. It is highly
flexible in rapid prototyping across the whole imaging process and integrates vendor …

High‐resolution spiral imaging on a whole‐body 7T scanner with minimized image blurring

Y Qian, T Zhao, YK Hue, TS Ibrahim… - Magnetic resonance in …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract High‐resolution (∼ 0.22 mm) images are preferably acquired on whole‐body 7T
scanners to visualize minianatomic structures in human brain. They usually need long …

Accelerated volumetric MRI with a SENSE/GRAPPA combination

M Blaimer, FA Breuer, N Seiberlich… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To combine the specific advantages of the generalized autocalibrating partially
parallel acquisitions (GRAPPA) technique and sensitivity encoding (SENSE) with two …

Simultaneous Multi-Slice fMRI using spiral trajectories

B Zahneisen, BA Poser, T Ernst, AV Stenger - Neuroimage, 2014 - Elsevier
Parallel imaging methods using multi-coil receiver arrays have been shown to be effective
for increasing MRI acquisition speed. However parallel imaging methods for fMRI with 2D …

RARE spiral T2‐weighted imaging

W Block, J Pauly, D Nishimura - Magnetic resonance in …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Spiral imaging has a number of advantages for fast imaging, including an efficient use of
gradient hardware. However, inhomogeneity‐induced blurring is proportional to the data …

Improving parallel imaging by jointly reconstructing multi‐contrast data

B Bilgic, TH Kim, C Liao, MK Manhard… - Magnetic resonance …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To develop parallel imaging techniques that simultaneously exploit coil sensitivity
encoding, image phase prior information, similarities across multiple images, and …

Artifact and noise suppression in GRAPPA imaging using improved k‐space coil calibration and variable density sampling

J Park, Q Zhang, V Jellus… - Magnetic Resonance in …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
A parallel imaging technique, GRAPPA (GeneRalized Auto‐calibrating Partially Parallel
Acquisitions), has been used to improve temporal or spatial resolution. Coil calibration in …

Partially parallel magnetic resonance imaging using arbitrary k-space trajectories with image reconstruction based on successive convolution operations

P Hu, CH Meyer - US Patent 7,583,082, 2009 - Google Patents
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a well known imag ing technique described, eg, in US
Pat. No. 6,020,739 to Meyer et al., whose disclosure is hereby incorporated by ref erence in …

Magnetic resonance imaging in real time: advances using radial FLASH

S Zhang, KT Block, J Frahm - Journal of Magnetic Resonance …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To develop technical advances for real‐time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
that allow for improved image quality and high frame rates. Materials and Methods The …