General formulation for quantitative G‐factor calculation in GRAPPA reconstructions

FA Breuer, SAR Kannengiesser… - … in Medicine: An …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
In this work a theoretical description for practical quantitative estimation of the noise
enhancement in generalized autocalibrating partially parallel acquisitions (GRAPPA) …

Real-time reconstruction of sensitivity encoded radial magnetic resonance imaging using a graphics processing unit

TS Sorensen, D Atkinson, T Schaeffter… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A barrier to the adoption of non-Cartesian parallel magnetic resonance imaging for real-time
applications has been the times required for the image reconstructions. These times have …

[PDF][PDF] Spatial encoding using multiple RF coils: SMASH imaging and parallel MRI

DK Sodickson - … in biomedical magnetic resonance imaging and …, 2000 - scholar.archive.org
The speed of MR image acquisition has increased dramatically since the 1980s through a
combination of technological and methodological advances. Nevertheless, many clinical …

Nonlinear GRAPPA: A kernel approach to parallel MRI reconstruction

Y Chang, D Liang, L Ying - Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
GRAPPA linearly combines the undersampled k‐space signals to estimate the missing k‐
space signals where the coefficients are obtained by fitting to some auto‐calibration signals …

SMASH, SENSE, PILS, GRAPPA: how to choose the optimal method

M Blaimer, F Breuer, M Mueller… - Topics in Magnetic …, 2004 - journals.lww.com
Fast imaging methods and the availability of required hardware for magnetic resonance
tomography (MRT) have significantly reduced acquisition times from about an hour down to …

Comprehensive quantification of signal‐to‐noise ratio and g‐factor for image‐based and k‐space‐based parallel imaging reconstructions

PM Robson, AK Grant… - … in Medicine: An …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Parallel imaging reconstructions result in spatially varying noise amplification characterized
by the g‐factor, precluding conventional measurements of noise from the final image. A …

Fast, simple gradient delay estimation for spiral MRI

RK Robison, A Devaraj, JG Pipe - Magnetic Resonance in …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Timing delays between data acquisition and gradient transmission result in image
degradation. This is especially true in spiral MRI, where delays can alter data in a …

Parallel MR imaging: a user's guide

JF Glockner, HH Hu, DW Stanley, L Angelos, K King - Radiographics, 2005 - pubs.rsna.org
Parallel imaging is a recently developed family of techniques that take advantage of the
spatial information inherent in phased-array radiofrequency coils to reduce acquisition times …

Virtual coil concept for improved parallel MRI employing conjugate symmetric signals

M Blaimer, M Gutberlet, P Kellman… - … in Medicine: An …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
A new approach for utilizing conjugate k‐space symmetry for improved parallel MRI
performance is presented. By generating virtual coils containing conjugate symmetric k …

3Parallel magnetic resonance imaging with adaptive radius in k‐space (PARS): Constrained image reconstruction using k‐space locality in radiofrequency coil …

EN Yeh, CA McKenzie, MA Ohliger… - … in Medicine: An …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
A parallel image reconstruction algorithm is presented that exploits the k‐space locality in
radiofrequency (RF) coil encoded data. In RF coil encoding, information relevant to …