Echoplanar spectroscopic imaging (EPSI) was introduced as a fast alternative for spectroscopic imaging and has been recently implemented on clinical scanners. With further advances in gradient hardware and processing strategies, EPSI can be used to obtain spectroscopic images whose spatial resolution parallels that of conventional anatomic images within clinically acceptable acquisition time. T...

Introduction: The fast spectroscopic imaging method “spectroscopic missing pulse SSFP” (spMP-SSFP) is one of the candidates for fast 3D proton spectroscopic imaging of the human brain with minimum user interaction [1,2]. However, the minimum total measurement time Tmin is rather long for large spatial 3D matrices, as k-space sampling is only accelerated by using short TR values, typically 150-2...

The line profile variations of the δ Scuti star HD 2724≡BB Phe were studied on the basis of new 189 high– resolution spectrograms covering 52 hours of observations on a baseline of 8.3 days. By combining these results with those of a previous campaign 13 pulsation modes were identified: 5 of them are both photometric and spectroscopic, 3 are purely spectroscopic and 5 purely photometric. For th...

Motion-induced artifacts are much harder to recognize in magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging than in imaging experiments and can therefore lead to erroneous interpretation. A method for prospective motion correction based on an optical tracking system has recently been proposed and has already been successfully applied to single voxel spectroscopy. In this work, the utility of prospective ...