Souheil J. Inati1,
Michael Schacht Hansen2, Peter Kellman2
1National
Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD,
United States; 2National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National
Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
We present an algorithm for adaptive combination of images from an array of MR coils that is suitable for applications in which complex valued images are required. This algorithm enforces smoothness in both the magnitude and phase of the estimated coil sensitivities and overcomes limitations inherent in previous methods.