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  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
  • Medical Imaging Physics
  • Biomedical Engineering

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  • Spiral MRI sequences are crucial for fast imaging.
  • Designing optimal spiral trajectories under hardware constraints (gradient frequency, slew rate, amplitude) is complex.
  • Existing methods often rely on numerical approximations, which can be difficult to implement and analyze.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analytically define a spiral waveform and trajectory for MRI.
  • To meet specific gradient hardware constraints.
  • To provide an easily implementable and analyzable solution for spiral MRI.

Main Methods:

  • Derived piecewise analytical solutions for gradient waveforms using the involute of a circle.
  • Developed analytical equations for time-dependent k-space trajectory and sampling density compensation.
  • Provided analytical expressions for k-space data acquisition timing.
  • Shared open-source software implementing the derived equations.
  • Compared performance against numerically derived Archimedean spiral solutions.

Main Results:

  • The proposed analytical method yields performance very similar to numerically derived solutions.
  • The analytical approach is significantly easier to implement and analyze than numerical methods.
  • Scanner implementation of the method is feasible and illustrated.

Conclusions:

  • The developed method, WHIRLED PEAS (Winding Hybrid Interleaved Radial Lines Encoding Described by Piecewise Exact Analytical Solution), provides an effective analytical solution for spiral MRI.
  • This method is easy to implement and offers performance comparable to optimal numerical designs.
  • WHIRLED PEAS simplifies the design and implementation of spiral MRI sequences.