ABSTRACT
In accordance to prior descriptions, Fourier encoding and legicographic, rectilinear k-space sampling have dominated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) since Professor R. Ernst’s (1996) classic work on pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Despite limited, but significant, attempts to devise alternative k-space sampling/acquisition schemes (spiral and twisted projection imaging, echo planar imaging (EPI)) to minimize imaging times, radio frequency (RF) excitation has been invariably combined and used with Fourier encoding to achieve image construction (Grant and Harris 1996; Stark and Bradley 1999).
