Robust and Computationally Efficient Missing Point and Phase Estimation for Zero Echo Time (ZTE) Sequences
Curtis A Corum1,2, Abdul Haseeb Ahmed2, Mathews Jacob2, Vincent Magnotta2, and Stanley Kruger2
1Champaign Imaging LLC, Shoreview, MN, United States, 2University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
Here
we modify and apply for the first time a robust and computationally efficient missing point and
phase estimation algorithm originating in the solid state NMR
community for zero echo time (ZTE) imaging sequences.
Figure
1: Distorted FID, distorted
Projection, corrected FID
and corrected projection fro simulated hollow cube object.
Figure
2: Brain Images of Health Adult
Subject.
Bottom Row Left to
Right: Un-corrected ZTE intrinsic contrast, IR-ZTE and T2-ZTE
Top
Row Left to Right: Corrected
(Nd = 3) ZTE
intrinsic
contrast, IR-ZTE and T2-ZTE