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  • Title: Fast T2 mapping with multiple echo, Caesar cipher acquisition and model-based reconstruction.
    Author: Lankford CL, Dortch RD, Does MD.
    Journal: Magn Reson Med; 2015 Mar; 73(3):1065-74. PubMed ID: 24753216.
    Abstract:
    PURPOSE: Fast, quantitative T2 mapping is of value to both clinical and research environments. However, many protocols utilizing fast spin echo (FSE) pulse sequences contain acceleration-induced artifacts that are compounded when fitting parameter maps, especially in the presence of imperfect refocusing. This work presents a B1 -corrected, model-based reconstruction and associated Cartesian FSE phase-encode ordering that provides enhanced accuracy in T2 estimates compared with other common accelerated protocols. THEORY AND METHODS: The method, known as multiple echo, Caesar cipher acquisition and model-based reconstruction (ME-CAMBREC), directly fitted T2 , flip angle, and proton density maps on a row-by-row basis to k-space data using the extended phase graph model. Regularization was enforced in order to minimize noise amplification effects. ME-CAMBREC was evaluated in computational and physical phantoms, as well as human brain, and compared with other FSE-based T2 mapping protocols, DESPOT2, and parallel imaging acceleration. RESULTS: In computational, phantom, and human experiments, ME-CAMBREC provided T2 maps with fewer artifacts and less or similar error compared with other methods tested at moderate-to-high acceleration factors. In vivo, ME-CAMBREC provided error rates approximately one-half those of other methods. CONCLUSION: Directly fitting multi-echo data to k-space using the extended phase graph can increase fidelity of T2 maps significantly, especially when using an appropriate phase-encode ordering.
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