• Department of Biomedical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China;
DUYiping, Email: yipingdu@zju.edu.cn
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Abdominal imaging is one of the important clinical applications of magnetic resonance imagining, but image degradation due to respiratory motion remains a major problem. Retrospective respiratory navigator gating technique is an effective approach to alleviate such degradation but is subject to long scan time and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) efficiency. In this study, a modified retrospective navigator gating technique with variable over-sampling ratio acquisition and weighted average reconstruction algorithm is presented. Experiments in phantom and the imaging results of seven volunteers demonstrated that the proposed method provided an enhanced SNR and reduced ghost-to-image ratio compared to the conventional method. The proposed method can also be used to reduce imaging time while maintaining comparable image quality.

Citation: SHIZhongqiang, DUYiping. An Improved Retrospective Respiratory Navigator Gating Technique. Journal of Biomedical Engineering, 2015, 32(6): 1317-1322. doi: 10.7507/1001-5515.20150233 Copy

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