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415 – Statistical Methods for Improved Processing and Analysis of fMRI Data
Single Coil Multi-Slice Aliasing and Separation for fMRI
Daniel B. Rowe
Marquette University/Medical College of Wisconsin
Mary C. Kociuba
Medical College of Wisconsin
In functional magnetic resonance imaging, images of the brain are acquired as rapidly as physically possible cover the necessary brain, but also capture cognitive temporal dynamics. Techniques for in-plane acceleration techniques such as SENSE and GRAPPA have greatly contributed to decreasing image scan time. Newer simultaneous multi-slice (SMS) methods have taken a different approach by accelerating through-plane to decrease scan time. Two multi-slice aliasing patterns are examined for through-plane SMS acceleration.