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In Vivo Parallel RF Excitation with B0 Correction

Kawin Setsompop¹, Adam C. Zelinski¹, Vijay Anand Alagappan², Juergen Nistler³, Ulrich Joerg Fontius³, Franz Hebrank⁴, Franz Schmitt³, Larry L. Wald⁵, Elfar Adalsteinsson¹

¹Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ²A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ³Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; ⁴Siemens Medical Solutions, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ⁵A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

Parallel Excitation Experiments Using a Novel Direct Calibration Technique for RF-Pulse Determination

Peter Ullmann¹, Sven Junge², Frank Seifert³, Wolfgang Ruhm², Jürgen Hennig¹

¹University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; ²Bruker BioSpin MRI GmbH, Ettlingen, Germany; ³Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin, Germany
 

SAR Reduction in Transmit SENSE Using Adapted Excitation K-Space Trajectories

Xiaoping Wu¹, Can Akgun¹, J. Thomas Vaughan¹, Kamil Ugurbil¹, Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele¹

¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

SAR Reduction for Parallel Transmission Using VERSE and K-Space Filtering

Ingmar Graesslin¹, Sven Biederer¹, Ferdinand Schweser¹, Karl-Heinz Zimmermann², Ulrich Katscher¹, Peter Börnert¹

¹Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany; ²TU-Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg, Germany
 

Electrodynamic Constraints on Minimum SAR in Parallel Excitation

Riccardo Lattanzi¹, ², Aaron K. Grant², Daniel K. Sodickson¹, ², Yudong Zhu³

¹Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ²Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ³GE Global Research, Niskayuna, New York, USA

Time-Segmented Spin Domain Method for Fast Large-Tip-Angle RF Pulse Design in Parallel Excitation

William A. Grissom¹, Jeffrey A. Fessler¹, Douglas C. Noll¹

¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

High Flip Angle Slice Selective Parallel RF Excitation on an 8-Channel System at 3T

Kawin Setsompop¹, Adam C. Zelinski¹, Vijay Anand Alagappan², Ulrich Joerg Fontius³, Franz Hebrank⁴, Franz Schmitt³, Larry L. Wald⁵, Elfar Adalsteinsson¹

Solutions, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ⁵A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

Minimum Norm Parallel Transmit Pulse Design

Florian Wiesinger¹, Mika Vogel¹, Patrick Gross¹, Graeme McKinnon², LeRoy Blawat², Eddy Boskamp², Joseph Piel³, Yudong Zhu³, Hartmut Koenig¹

¹GE Global Research Europe, Munich, Germany; ²GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA; ³GE Global Research, Niskayuna, New York, USA
 

B1-Gradient Based MRI Using a Multi-Element Transmit System

Ulrich Katscher¹, Jonathan Lisinski², Peter Boernert¹, Ingmar Graesslin¹

¹Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany; ²University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

Phase Encoding Without Gradients Using TRASE-FSE MRI

Scott B. King¹, Peter Latta¹, Vyacheslav Volotovskyy¹, Jonathan C. Sharp¹, Boguslaw Tomanek¹

¹National Research Council of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada