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Rapid quantitative susceptibility mapping using single-shot echo planar time-resolved imaging

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Haoran Bai
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Ke Dai
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Zhenghao Li
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Eddy Solomon
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魏红江 (Hongjiang Wei)
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Zhouwei Xu
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陈浩 (Hao Chen) *
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张志勇 (Zhiyong Zhang)
DOI:10.1088/1361-6560/ae273ddelete
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Objective. Echo-planar imaging (EPI) can provide rapid quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) in single-shot acquisition but suffers from B0 inhomogeneity and susceptibility artifacts near air–tissue interfaces. To address these limitations, this work introduces single-shot echo planar time-resolved imaging (EPTI), which enables distortion-free and multi-contrast imaging for rapid QSM. Approach. A zig-zag ky–t sampling trajectory was employed in two-dimensional single-shot EPTI and a locally low-rank subspace reconstruction with B0 updating was applied to generate distortion-free multi-echo images from highly undersampled data. The proposed EPTI-QSM method was systematically evaluated against the gold-standard three-dimensional (3D) gradient echo (GRE) and single-shot EPI with a uniform 4-step masking procedure. In addition, various echo selections from the EPTI images were investigated to assess their impact on QSM quality. Main Results. EPTI-QSM demonstrated better anatomical fidelity, reduced susceptibility artifacts, and a reliable brain coverage compared to single-shot EPI, particularly in regions affected by B0 inhomogeneity. Multi-echo EPTI data with echo times ranging from 10 to 30 ms further improved susceptibility quantification and mitigated signal dropouts near air–tissue interfaces. In addition, EPTI yielded distortion-free structural images compared to EPI, and improved image contrast compared to 3D GRE used for QSM, enabling clearer anatomical visualization. Significance. Single-shot EPTI enables distortion-free, multi-contrast images and rapid QSM reconstruction, offering a promising alternative to EPI-based QSM, particularly in applications requiring rapid and robust susceptibility quantification.

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physics in medicine & biology
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