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.