Abstract

PurposeThis study extends the Fast ROtary Nonlinear Spatial ACquisition (FRONSAC) method to include 3D acquisitions and reconstructions. It uses a transform domain reconstruction which is needed to make 3D reconstructions practical and provides new insights into how parallel imaging performance is enhanced by FRONSAC encoding. MethodsThis work developed the first examples of FRONSAC incorporated into a 3D acquisition. 3D FRONSAC was tested on human subjects with both simple gradient echo and MPRAGE Cartesian acquisitions. The quality of the 3D FRONSAC images was evaluated using structural similarity index measure (SSIM), and normalized root mean square error (NRMSE). ResultsFRONSAC encoding did not significantly modify the contrast obtained in either sequence, but it substantially improves the image quality of undersampled reconstruction. FRONSAC images have reduced undersampling ghosts and consistently improved SSIM and NRMSE. ConclusionsAcquisition and reconstruction of 3D FRONSAC images are feasible, and the additional FRONSAC encoding improves image quality in highly undersampled images.

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