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Abstract #0293

Concurrent Monitoring of RF and Gradient Waveforms of Parallel Transmission Pulses by a Field Camera

David Otto Brunner1, Benjamin E. Dietrich1, Mustafa Cavusoglu1, Christoph Barmet1, 2, Bertram J. Wilm1, Klaas P. Pruessmann1

1Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; 2Skope Magnetic Resonance Technologies, Zurich, Switzerland

Advanced schemes of parallel excitation build upon the close and accurate interplay between several RF channels and gradient waveforms. We present a method based on gradient magnetic field monitoring to measure the temporal evolution of both, the gradient magnetic field (in principle to higher orders) and the RF excitation pulses played by multiple transmit channels fully concurrently a system which is independent from the scanner and the coil array.

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