Cover Imaging for Physicists

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Parallel Imaging = ‘Coil Encoding’
•Acquire fewer k-space lines
Speed up scanning
•Use Coil Arrays to:
Unwrap aliased images (image space)
OR
Generate missing lines (k-space)
‘SENSE’ -like
‘SMASH’ -like
Scan time = (TR × NAV × NPE)/R