Rapid, high‐resolution and distortion‐free R2∗ mapping of fetal brain using multi‐echo radial FLASH and model‐based reconstruction
This study demonstrates the feasibility of using multi-echo radial FLASH combined with calibrationless model-based reconstruction for motion-robust, distortion-free <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msubsup><mml:mrow><mml:mi>R</mml:mi></mml:mrow> <mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:mrow> <mml:mrow><mml:mo>*</mml:mo></mml:mrow> </mml:msubsup> </mml:math> mapping of the fetal brain at 3T, achieving a nominal resolution of 1.1 × 1.1 × 3 mm<sup>3</sup> within 2 seconds per slice.
Authors
- Edward Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9912-4163)
- Hongli Fan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5060-609X)
- Serge Vasylechko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5691-0607)
- Simon Keith Warfield (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7659-3880)
- Ali Gholipour (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7699-4564)
- Ryne A. Didier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4970-9905)
- Martin Uecker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8850-809X)
- Onur Afacan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2112-3205)
- Zhengguo Tan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4322-5109)
- Xiaoqing Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7460-0004)
Institutions
- Boston Children's Hospital (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Graz University of Technology (AT)
- Siemens (United States) (US)
- Irvine University (US)
- Siemens Healthcare (United States) (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
- Published
- 2025-06-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.30604
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.36
Funders
- Nvidia
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Standards and Technology