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Abstract #3362

Saturation Pulse Design with Explicit Sensitivity Maximization for Bloch-Siegert B1+ Mapping

Marcin Jankiewicz1, 2, John C. Gore1, 2, William A. Grissom1, 3

1Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States; 2Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States; 3Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States

We propose a novel way of designing saturation pulses for Bloch-Siegert B1+ mapping, which directly maximizes Bloch-Siegert sensitivity subject to a constraint requiring negligible on-resonant excitation.

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