Improved SENSE imaging using accurate coil sensitivity maps generated by a global magnitude‐phase fitting method

To develop a novel coil sensitivity processing technique that is able to reduce or eliminate aliasing artifacts and noise amplification in image‐domain parallel imaging (i.e., SENSE).

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