Multiband Multi-slab Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting Using Overlapping Slabs and Temporal-Sharing Reconstruction

Abstract

Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) is a novel and rapid technique to quantify multiple MR parameters, and single-slab MRF was later developed for better slice coverage. In this study, we proposed a new method to extend single-slab MRF to multiband multi-slab acquisition. The slab boundary artifacts due to imperfect slab profile in multi-slab acquisition is overcome by a overlapping-slab acquisition strategy, and MRF reconstruction from the multiband multi-slab data can be obtained using our previously proposed temporal sharing reconstruction method.