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Fat fraction (FF) maps can be estimated from phase-cycled (PC) balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) imaging using a dictionary fitting approach (SPARCQ). Three-dimensional PC bSSFP imaging, however, is time consuming, since around 16 PCs must be sampled to fully describe a voxels’ PC profile. Compressed sensing (CS) has been proven to accelerate MRI scans. This study has two aims 1) to evaluate the performance of two CS algorithms (total variation (TV)- vs. subspace-constrained) taking regularisation along the PC dimension into account and 2) to investigate the upper limits of acceleration using these techniques on FF quantification using SPARCQ.
Peper et al. (Wed,) studied this question.