HALF-FOURIER BURST IMAGING ON A CLINICAL SCANNER

A modified BURST imaging technique with a nearly twofold reduction in acquisition time, improved signal-to-noise ratio and clear improvement of the image quality is introduced. The method applies half-fourier r econstruction and can be implemented on a standard clinical scanner. T his approach allows the collection of single-shot magnetization prepar ed images of the human brain with a matrix size of 112 x 128 within 86 -250 ms. The signal-to-noise properties of the pulse sequence are anal yzed and compared with a standard BURST experiment.