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Abstract #2006

Sensitivity Decomposition of Water and Metabolites with Sensitivity Encoding for Reducing Scan Time

Toru Shirai1, Satoshi Hirata1, Yo Taniguchi1, Yoshihisa Soutome1, Yoshitaka Bito2

1Hitachi, Ltd., Central Research Laboratory, Kokubunji, Tokyo, Japan; 2Hitachi, Ltd., Kokubunji, Tokyo, Japan

We propose a method that combines the sensitivity decomposition method with the sensitivity encoding method for simultaneously acquiring water and metabolites signals to reduce the scan time. This method consists of a measurement that shifts only the water signal on an image and undersamples in k-space, and a data process that separates each signal by using the coil sensitivities. The results of experiments with a healthy volunteer showed that the proposed method reduced the scan time to one-fourth of the fully sampled CSI, to which non-water-suppressed measurement was added.

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