Improvement of temporal signal‐to‐noise ratio of GRAPPA accelerated echo planar imaging using a FLASH based calibration scan

To demonstrate that the temporal signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) of generalized autocalibrating partially parallel acquisitions (GRAPPA) accelerated echo planar imaging (EPI) can be enhanced and made more spatially uniform by using a fast low angle shot (FLASH) based calibration scan.

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