Northwestern University

Michael Hurley

Timothy J Carroll

Sumeeth Jonathan

Parmede Vakil

Rajiv Menon

Renee Qian

Sameer Ansari

In one aspect of the disclosure, an MRI-based system includes an MRI scanner having a first axis and a first plane perpendicular to the first axis, a pulse sequence module configured to provide a 3D pulse sequence to the MRI scanner, and a control module configured to instruct the MRI scanner to conduct radial k-space samples having N second planes that each are perpendicular to the first plane and through which the first axis passes, N being an integer greater than 1. The 3D pulse sequence instructs the MRI scanner to a radio-frequency (RF) pulse, conduct a gradient readout in the first plane, and conduct a gradient readout in one of the N second planes.

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Chicago, IL, United States of America

Michael Hurley