Liyong Chen1,
2, David A. Feinberg, 23
1Advanced
MRI Technologies, LLC, Sebastopol, CA, United States; 2Helen Wills
Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United
States; 3Advanced MRI Technologies, Sebastopol, CA, United States
A new approach for encoding multiple slabs and multiple 3D volumes simultaneously was proposed by applying orthogonal multibanded excitation and refocusing rf pulse slabs in zoomed 3D GRASE. This approach greatly increase spatial resolution (zoomed) and spatial coverage.