Application of SENSE to Continuously Moving Table MRI: Demonstration of Feasibility

H. H. Hu, A. J. Madhuranthakam, D. G. Kruger, J. F. Glockner, S. J. Riederer MRI Research Lab and Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States Introduction: SENSE is a parallel imaging method [1] that has been used to provide reduction in acquisition time or improvement in spatial resolution in a variety of clinical applications. The basis for SENSE is to acquire data using a phase encode FOV which would generally cause aliasing, but to use previously measured coil sensitivity maps to account for this in reconstructing an unaliased image. In virtually all applications of SENSE done to date, the imaging field-of-view and coil assembly have been static during data acquisition.