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Abstract #1746

Coil Combination of CSI Data Based on Reference Images at 7T

Bernhard Strasser1, Marek Chmelik1, Siegfried Trattnig1, Stephan Gruber1, Wolfgang Bogner1

1Centre of Excellence, Department of Radiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

In this work the phase information obtained from a pair of gradient echo images is used for phasing CSI-data of 32 channels of a multi-channel-coil in order to sum up the signals of the coils and gain Signal to Noise Ratio compared to a Volume Coil. The additional 1.2 s measurement time is negligible. As a side benefit the resulting spectra are already correctly phased, leading to higher reproducibility, processing speed and accuracy of the fit. This method was tested in phantoms and healthy volunteers.

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