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Performance Analysis of 2-D GRAPPA and Partial Fourier GRAPPA for 3-D MRI

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The acquisition time of three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging (3-D MRI) is too long to tolerate in many clinical applications. At present, parallel MRI (pMRI) and partial Fourier (PF) with homodyne detection, including 2-D pMRI (two-dimensional pMRI) and PF_pMRI (the combination of PF and pMRI), are often used to accelerate data sampling in 3-D MRI. However, the performances of 2-D pMRI and PF_pMRI have been seldom discussed. In this paper, we choose GRAPPA (generalized auto-calibrating partially parallel acquisition) as a representative pMRI to analyze and compare the performances of 2-D GRAPPA and PF_GRAPPA, including the noise standard deviation (SD), root mean-square error (RMSE) and g factor, through a series of in vitro experiments. A series of phantom experiments show that the SD, RMSE and g-factor values of PF_GRAPPA are lower than those of 2-D GRAPPA under the same acceleration factor. It demonstrates that the performance of PF_GRAPPA is better than that of 2-D GRAPPA. PF_GRAPPA can be used in any thickness of imaging slab, while 2-D GRAPPA can only be used in thick slab due to the difficulties in determination of the fitting coefficients which result from imperfect RF pulse. In vivo brain experiment results also show that the performance of PF_GRAPPA is better than that of 2-D GRAPPA.

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This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program)-2010CB732600, the National Natural Science Foundation of China-81000611, 81120108012 and the Natural Science Foundation of Shenzhen, China-JCY201110053.

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  1. Paul C. Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China

    Shan He, Guoxi Xie, Yiu-Cho Chung, Xin Liu & Bensheng Qiu

  2. School of Electronic and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

    Shan He

  3. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Yu Ding

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He, S., Xie, G., Chung, YC. et al. Performance Analysis of 2-D GRAPPA and Partial Fourier GRAPPA for 3-D MRI. Appl Magn Reson 44, 1199–1212 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00723-013-0472-8

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