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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2015
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Berkin Bilgic, Boston, MA (US);
Kawin Setsompop, Charlestown, MA (US);
Lawrence L. Wald, Cambridge, MA (US);
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for simultaneous multislice ('SMS'} magnetic resonance imaging ('MRI'}, in which a random blip gradient encoding scheme is utilized to impart a different phase to each of a plurality of different slice locations. Because of the random blip gradient encoding, the amount of the imparted phase is randomized for each phase encoding step in a Cartesian k-space trajectory. This data acquisition strategy leads to incoherent aliasing artifacts across the simultaneously excited slices. Images of the individual slices can be reconstructed using a compressed sensing framework.