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Abstract #2214

Preserving the Excitation Profile of Small Flip Angle RF Pulses in the Presence of Rapid T2* Relaxation

Jun Shen1

1NIMH, Bethesda, MD, United States

A fast transform is proposed that converts, under the linear response approximation, existing RF pulses into ones that preserve frequency selectivity in the presence of rapid T2* relaxation.

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