Parallel Imaging at 7 Tesla

Outline

My background

Tour of CMRR

CMRR Magnets

GE  safety movie

What is MR

Slide 8

What is MR

Slide 10

What is MR

Spatial localization

MR signal

Imaging trade-offs

"Faster ways to run k-space..."

What we get with higher frequency spectrum – larger k-space

 Selective Update idea’s

Keyhole

Generalized Series

Slide 20

Formulation of a minimum cross-entropy problem

Minimum cross-entropy

Slide 23

Algorithm for Generalized Series

What is the resolution

How to Accommodate greater changes?

Extending just one channel

The question/idea

The alternative

RFOV image

Surface coils in “image” space

Undersampling Cartoon

The linear system

SENSE (SENsitivity ENcoding)

SENSE equation remarks

Coil-sensitivities

Resulting image

g-factor vs. number of coils

Image restoration algorithms

How does it work, = pictures

Slide 41

T1 images

How does it work

FLASH images, 1mmx1mm

Slide 45

How does it work

Functional MRI

Activation map

Slide 49

Conclusion

Not mentioned – but should have

Acknowledgement