Evaluation of truncated readout-echo MR images obtained at 0.35 T

It is possible to acquire a truncated echo, in which part of the information at the beginning or end of the echo is missing, and to restore the missing information by conjugation. This process was shown by means of edge spread function in phantoms and brain images in volunteers to introduce little, if any, degradation of image quality and can be used to improve sequence efficiency or to shorten echo time.