Larkman D J, Hajnal J V, Herlihy A H, Coutts G A, Young I R, Ehnholm G
The Robert Steiner Magnetic Resonance Imaging Unit, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London W12 OHS, United Kingdom.
J Magn Reson Imaging. 2001 Feb;13(2):313-7. doi: 10.1002/1522-2586(200102)13:2<313::aid-jmri1045>3.0.co;2-w.
Increased acquisition efficiency has been achieved by exciting several slices simultaneously. The mixed data were unfolded to produce separate slices using the spatial encoding information inherent in a multicoil receiver system. Each coil yields a linear combination of signals from all excited slices weighted by the sensitivity of each coil. A matrix inversion provides a solution to unfold these images.