Figure 3.
In vivo 3D SSFP brain images were acquired with α = 30°, 0.7 × 1.3 × 4 mm3 resolution, 384 × 192 × 16 encoding, TR/TE = 15/7.2 ms, 31.25 kHz bandwidth, and two different phase-cycling schemes (0–0 and 0–180) within 1:32 min. Axial slices from the SSFP acquisitions (a,c) and the corresponding sensitivity estimates (b,d) are displayed. The acquisitions were combined with SOS (e) and the proposed method (f). Again, the proposed reconstruction achieves robust banding artifact reduction and more uniform gray/white matter signal across the brain.