FIGURE 6.

SNR of phantom data acquired using the 3D blipped stack‐of‐spirals and a fully sampled 3D stack‐of‐spirals (10 axial slices shown from left to right). A, From top to bottom: Fully sampled stack‐of‐spirals, first reconstructed using 3D gridding with sum‐of‐squares coil combination, second with CG‐SENSE reconstruction using the ²³Na acquired coil profiles. Then blipped stack‐of‐spirals, first reconstructed using 3D gridding with sum‐of‐squares coil combination, second with CG‐SENSE reconstruction using the ²³Na acquired coil profiles. B, SNR profiles for three different cross‐sections. Left and middle: for the two diagonal cross‐sections for a central axial slice. Right: for a superior–inferior cross‐section, referenced to the sagittal plane