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Multi-Resolution MR Fingerprinting: High-Resolution Maps from a Combination of High- and Low-Resolution Data
Kathleen Ropella-Panagis1, Jesse Hamilton1, and Nicole Seiberlich1
1Department of Radiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
A data sampling scheme of interleaved high- and low-resolution spiral trajectories for MR Fingerprinting is proposed to reduce the acquisition time needed to collect high-resolution tissue property maps. 
Fig 3: Multi-resolution MRF results in the 2x2 pixel squares of the resolution phantom. The first column shows the ground truth T1 and T2 maps. The second column shows the result of acquiring low-resolution data and simply zero-padding the images; significant blurring is evident. The third column shows the result of acquiring 33% of the data with the high-resolution spiral trajectory. The fourth column shows the result of acquiring 50% of the data with the high-resolution spiral trajectory. The fourth column shows the result of acquiring all data with the high-resolution spiral.
Fig 1:(a) Flowchart for the proposed method. High-resolution data (red) and low-resolution data (black) are acquired and reconstructed to generate high-resolution timeseries images. A low rank reconstruction method is used to obtain property maps. (b) Spiral sampling scheme for 33% high-resolution data, where spiral 1 is the low-resolution spiral and spiral 2 is the high-resolution spiral. (c) Resolution phantom. Each cluster includes 4 squares with different T1 and T2 values, and range in size from 1x1 to 6x6 pixels. The white arrow denotes the 2x2 pixel cluster used in Figs 2-3.