Keywords: Image acquisition: Sequences, Contrast mechanisms: Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI)
In this course I will provide an overview of magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI), its goals and the techniques that underlie it. The talk will begin with a brief historical perspective, discussing classical approaches such as chemical shift imaging (CSI), and then proceed to cover approaches to acceleration, including echo-planar based methods (EPSI), non-cartesian trajectories, undersampling, ultrashort TR acquisitions and model based reconstructions (SPICE). This course should provide participants with an introductory understanding of the current state-of-the-art in spectroscopic imaging, its pitfalls and possibilities.