The invention relates to a method of parallel imaging reconstruction in parallel magnetic resonance imaging reconstruction. Magnetic resonance data is acquired in parallel by an array of separate RF receiver coils. A reconstruction method based on Tikhonov regularization is presented to reduce the SNR loss due to geometric correlations in the spatial information from the array coil elements. In order to reduce the noise amplification of the reconstruction so-called "g-factor", reference scans are utilized as a priori information of the final reconstructed image to provide regularized estimates for the reconstruction using the L-curve technique. According to the invention the method with the proposed L-curve approach was fully automatic and showed a significant reduction in average g-factors in the experimental_images.

 
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