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Abstract #1474

Quantification of K-Space Filtering to Compare SNR and Improve Parallel MRI Acquisitions with Hyperpolarized Nuclei

Julien Rivoire1, Maxim Terekhov1, Ursula Wolf1, Christian Hoffmann1, Janet Friedrich1, Laura Maria Schreiber1

1Section of Medical Physics, Department of Radiology, Johannes Gutenberg University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany

SNR and k-space filtering are the two key aspects characterizing the image quality. With k-space filtering quantification several acquisitions using different strategies (acceleration, sampling strategies) can be properly compared. First the quantification of k-space filtering of the standard hyperpolarized 3-Helium imaging methods has been performed. Secondly expected SNR of images acquired with different strategies but providing similar k-space filtering were simulated and analysed.

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