Multiband accelerated 2D EPI for multi-echo brain QSM at 3 T.
Oliver C KiersnowskiPatrick FuchsStephen J WastlingJannette NassarJohn S ThorntonKarin ShmueliPublished in: Magnetic resonance in medicine (2024)
Multi-echo acquisition is more robust for EPI-QSM across parallel imaging and multiband acceleration factors than single-echo acquisition. Multi-echo EPI can be used for highly accelerated acquisition while preserving QSM accuracy and quality relative to gold-standard 3D-GRE QSM.