Magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) is a powerful tool for diagnosis of many pathologic conditions. However conventional MRSI involves long scan times, in the order of 20 minutes. This work simulated an autocalibrating parallel technique based on GRAPPA algorithm for accelerating MRSI and applied it to 3 dimensional (3D) MRSI of the brain at 3 Tesla. Employing two fold undersampling in two phase-encoding directions, a four fold reduction in scantime was simulated. Metabolic parameters showed close agreement between the full and GRAPPA reconstructed spectral data.
Fast magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging at 3 Tesla using autocalibrating parallel technique. Publishing Authors By Initials