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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2015
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Munich, DE;
Qiu Wang, Princeton, NJ (US);
Marcel Dominik Nickel, Herzogenaurach, DE;
Boris Mailhe, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Mariappan S. Nadar, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
A method for performing a magnetic resonance image reconstruction with spatially varying coil compression includes using a non-Cartesian acquisition scheme to acquire a multi-coil k-space dataset fully sampled along a fully sampled direction and decoupling the multi-coil k-space dataset along the fully sampled direction to yield a plurality of uncompressed coil data matrices. The plurality of uncompressed coil data matrices are compressed to yield a plurality of virtual coil data matrices which are aligned along the fully sampled direction to yield a plurality of aligned virtual coil data matrices. The aligned virtual coil data matrices are coupled along the fully sampled direction to yield a compressed multi-coil k-space dataset. Intensity values in the plurality of aligned virtual coil data matrices are normalized based on the plurality of uncompressed coil data matrices and an image is reconstructed using the compressed multi-coil k-space dataset.