Thomas A. Depew1,
Qing-San Xiang1, 2
1Physics
& Astronomy, University of BC, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 2Radiology,
University of BC, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Partial Parallel Imaging (PPI) is a popular choice for performing accelerated acquisitions in MRI. PPI algorithms that use calibration and fitting to recreate the omitted k-space signals are candidates for using the Differential Energy (ED) as a metric for optimizing reconstruction parameters. ED provides a measure of the accuracy of the reconstruction and can be calculated without a fully sampled reference image. The ED reliably predicted optimal RW for a regionally tuned GRAPPA algorithm (r-GRAPPA).