SMASH imaging with an eight element multiplexed RF coil array |
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Authors: | James A Bankson Mark A Griswold Steven M Wright Daniel K Sodickson |
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Affiliation: | (1) Magnetic Resonance Systems Labs., Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 77843-3128 College Station, TX, USA;(2) Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, 02215 Boston, MA, USA;(3) Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, 02215 Boston, MA, USA |
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Abstract: | SMASH (SiMultaneous Acquisition of Spatial Harmonics) is a technique which can be used to acquire multiple lines ofk-space in parallel, by using spatial information from a radiofrequency coil array to perform some of the encoding normally
produced by gradients. Using SMASH, imaging speed can be increased up to a maximum acceleration factor equal to the number
of coil array elements. This work is a feasibility study which examines the use of SMASH with specialized coil array and data
reception hardware to achieve previously unattainable accelerations. An eight element linear SMASH array was designed to operate
in conjunction with a time domain multiplexing system to examine the effectiveness of SMASH imaging with as much as eightfold
acceleration factors. Time domain multiplexing allowed the multiple independent array elements to be sampled through a standard
single-channel receiver. SMASH-reconstructed images using this system were compared with reference images, and signal to noise
ratio and reconstruction artifact power were measured as a function of acceleration factor. Results of the imaging experiments
showed an almost constant SNR for SMASH acceleration factors of up to eight. Artifact power remained low within this range
of acceleration factors. This study demonstrates that efficient SMASH imaging at high acceleration factors is feasible using
appropriate hardware, and that time domain multiplexing is a convenient strategy to provide the multiple channels required
for rapid imaging with large arrays. |
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Keywords: | MRI SMASH Parallel imaging RF coils Arrays |
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