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Abstract #2572

Phase Encoding Correction for 3D FSE Microscopy

Jonathan Bishop1, R Mark Henkelman1, 2, Brian J. Nieman1, 2

1Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada; 2Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Phase errors generated by the phase encoding gradients of a 3D fast spin-echo sequence for preclinical microscopy are measured with a novel prescan sequence and applied as a retrospective correction at reconstruction to improve image quality.

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