Design and analysis of a practical 3D cones trajectory

作者：Paul T. Gurney, Brian A. Hargreaves, Dwight G. Nishimura · 发表于：Magnetic Resonance in Medicine · 年份：2006 · DOI：10.1002/mrm.20796 · 被引用次数：333 · 研究领域：Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications、Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research、NMR spectroscopy and applications

The 3D Cones k-space trajectory has many desirable properties for rapid and ultra-short echo time magnetic resonance imaging. An algorithm is presented that generates the 3D Cones gradient waveforms given a desired field of view and resolution. The algorithm enables a favorable trade-off between increases in readout time and decreases in the total number of required readouts. The resulting trajectory is very signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) efficient and has excellent aliasing properties. A rapid high-resolution ultra-short echo time imaging sequence is used to compare the 3D Cones trajectory to 3D projection reconstruction (3DPR) sampling schemes. For equivalent scan times, the 3D Cones trajectory has better SNR performance and fewer aliasing artifacts as compared to the 3DPR trajectory.