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Auto-calibrated simultaneous multiband cardiac GRE cine MRI at 5 Tesla
Yuan Zheng1, Lele Zhao2, Zhongqi Zhang2, Yu Ding1, and Jian Xu1
1UIH America, Inc., Houston, TX, United States, 2United Imaging Healthcare, Shanghai, China
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Eight consecutive frames from systole to diastole. Two slices were imaged simultaneously and shown in the first and second rows. The temporal resolution of each frame is 3.7 ms × 15 views per shot = 56 ms. The heart contraction and relaxation motion is well preserved in both slices.
Slice-dependent phase modulation can be achieved by adjusting the RF excitation pulse. The blue and red pulses are components of the multiband rf pulse for slice 1 and slice 2 respectively. The phase of slice 1 is not modulated, while the phase of slice 2 changes by π in between PE lines. In adjacent frames, a phase offset of π is applied on slice 2.