MAGPI: A framework for maximum likelihood MR phase imaging using multiple receive coils

Combining MR phase images from multiple receive coils is a challenging problem, complicated by ambiguities introduced by phase wrapping, noise, and the unknown phase‐offset between the coils. Various techniques have been proposed to mitigate the effect of these ambiguities but most of the existing methods require additional reference scans and/or use ad hoc post‐processing techniques that do not guarantee any optimality.

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