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Parallel imaging techniques, which in principle represent procedures of unfolding a reduced dataset, are well known and well established in MR imaging. This paper presents a further application of one particular reconstruction method, the SENSE algorithm, considered from a different point of view to remove potential foldover in conventional images acquired with multiple receive coils. Based on the coil sensitivity information, a body coverage map in the excited plane is calculated. This is used together with the measured raw data in a SENSE-type reconstruction to optimize the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) as well as to remove foldover reliably by unfolding the image to a larger field of view. The reconstruction is performed automatically, without any user interaction, and does not affect data acquisition. Based on phantom and in vivo studies, which retain high image quality after the removal, the potential and limits of this approach are discussed, also taking into account future scanner hardware that will support a large number of parallel receiver channels.
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Acknowledgement The authors would like to thank Romhild Hoogeveen from Philips Medical Systems in Best, Netherlands, for helpful discussions.
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Winkelmann, R., Börnert, P., Nehrke, K. et al. Efficient foldover suppression using SENSE. MAGMA 18, 63–68 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10334-004-0081-5
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10334-004-0081-5