Transmit SENSE and RF Pulses

11:00         14.        Parallel Excitation on an Eight Transmit-Channel MRI System

Yudong Zhu¹, Ronald Watkins¹, Randy Giaquinto¹, Christopher Hardy¹, Gontran Kenwood¹, Sanjay Mathias²,

Thom Valent², Mike Denzin², Jeff Hopkins², William Peterson², Bryan Mock²

¹GE Global Research Center, Niskayuna, New York, USA; ²GE Health Care, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

11:12         15.        Experimental Verification of Transmit SENSE with Simultaneous RF-Transmission on Multiple Channels

Peter Ullmann¹, Sven Junge², Markus Wick², Wolfgang Ruhm², Jürgen Hennig¹

¹University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; ²Bruker BioSpin MRI GmbH, Ettlingen, Germany

11:24         16.        A Parallel Transmit Volume Coil with Independent Control of Currents on the Array Elements - not available

Krishna Nagaraj Kurpad¹, Eddy Benjamin Boskamp², Steven M. Wright¹

¹Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA; ²GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

11:36         17.        Basics of RF Power Behaviour in Parallel Transmission

Ulrich Katscher¹, Peter Vernickel², Johan Overweg¹

¹Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany; ²TUHH Technology, Hamburg, Germany

11:48         18.        B1+ Non-Uniformity Correction Using 2D RF Pulse Design

Kyunghyun Sung¹, Krishna S. Nayak¹

¹University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

12:00         19.        An Image Domain Approach for the Design of RF Pulses in Transmit SENSE

William Allyn Grissom¹, Chun-Yu Yip¹, Douglas C. Noll¹

¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

12:12         20.        An in Vivo Method for Correcting Transmit/Receive Non-Uniformities with Phased Array Coils - not available

Jinghua Wang¹, Maolin Qiu¹, Robert T. Constable¹

¹Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

12:24         21.        Exploring 3D RF Shimming for Slice Selective Imaging

Jose Luis Ulloa^1,2, Pablo Irarrazaval¹, Joseph V. Hajnal²

¹Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile; ²Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, UK

12:36         22.        A Fast-k_z 3D Tailored RF Pulse for Reduced B₁ Inhomogeneity - not available

Suwit Saekho¹, Chun-Yu Yip², Douglas C. Noll², Fernando E. Boada¹, Victor Andrew Stenger¹

¹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; ²University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

12:48         23.        Motion-Compensated Multi-Dimensional RF Excitation Pulses - not available

Kay Nehrke¹, Peter Börnert¹

¹Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany