Rafael O'Halloran1,
Florian Knoll2, Kristian Bredies3, Rudolf Stollberger2,
Roland Bammer1
1Radiology,
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States; 2Institute of
Medical Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria; 3Department
of Mathematics and Scientific Computing, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
3D DTI acquisitions can be lengthy and as the demand for higher-resolution and more encoding directions increases, strategies for reducing scan times will be critical for adoption of these techniques into the clinic. Here undersampled diffusion-weighted SSFP is combined with a TGV2 constrained reconstruction to reduce the scan time by a factor of 4-8. The effect of undersampling on the FA and the direction of the principle eigenvector is investigated and compared to a conventional gridding reconstruction.