Using GRAPPA to improve auto-calibrated coil sensitivity estimation for the SENSE family of parallel imaging reconstruction algorithms

W. S. Hoge, Dana H. Brooks
Magn Reson Med
Volume 60, Number 2, Pages 462-467
Aug, 2008

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Abstract

Two strategies are widely used in parallel MRI to reconstruct subsampled multi-coil image data. SENSE and related methods employ explicit receiver coil spatial response estimates to reconstruct an image. In contrast, coil-by-coil methods such as GRAPPA leverage correlations among the acquired multi-coil data to reconstruct missing k-space lines. In self-referenced scenarios, both methods employ Nyquist-rate low-frequency k-space data to identify the reconstruction parameters. Because GRAPPA does not require explicit coil sensitivities estimates, it needs considerably fewer auto-calibration signals than SENSE. However, SENSE methods allow greater opportunity to control reconstruction quality though regularization and thus may outperform GRAPPA in some imaging scenarios. Here, we employ GRAPPA to improve self-referenced coil sensitivity estimation in SENSE and related methods using very few auto-calibration signals. This enables one to leverage each methods' inherent strength and produce high quality self-referenced SENSE reconstructions.

Fig 3 from GEYSER paper, Hoge and Brooks, MRM 2008
Reconstructions and error images of a simulated acquisition employing uniform subsampling. (Subsampled by 3 plus 4 additional lines for an effective acceleration of 2.87x). (a-c) LSQR-Hybrid SENSE reconstructions using auto-calibrated coil sensitivity estimates from (a) 6 ACS lines, (b) 24 ACS lines, and (c) 64 ACS lines. (d-f) comparable GRAPPA reconstructions using the same ACS lines.

Reference

Hoge WS, Brooks DH. Using GRAPPA to improve auto-calibrated coil sensitivity estimation for the SENSE family of parallel imaging reconstruction algorithms. Magn Reson Med 2008;60(2):462-467.

Bibtex entry

@Article{hoge:MRM08,
  author         = {Hoge, W Scott and Brooks, Dana H},                         
  title          = {Using {GRAPPA} to improve auto-calibrated coil sensitivity 
                   estimation for the {SENSE} family of parallel imaging       
                   reconstruction algorithms},                                 
  year           = 2008,                                                       
  journal        = {Magn Reson Med},                                           
  month          = {Aug},                                                      
  pages          = {462-467},                                                  
  number         = 2,                                                          
  volume         = 60,                                                         
  doi            = {10.1002/mrm.21634}
}

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