Figure 2

a) linear PE, b) Cart-GR PE , c) Cart-GR PE with through-slice (45° dephasing) transverse slice orientation. d), e) and f) are same as a), b) and c) respectively, with a sagittal slice. g), h) and i) are same as a), b) and c) respectively, with a coronal slice. Slice dephasing substantially improves image quality for Cart-GR PE. Blue arrows indicate PE direction. On the right, normalized RMSE (top) and SNR relative to the linear PE reference scan (bottom) values are plotted for Cart-GR scans. RMSE values are normalized to the fully balanced-SSFP Cart-GR scan for that particular orientation.