Saekho Suwit, Boada Fernando E, Noll Douglas C, Stenger V Andrew
Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.
Magn Reson Med. 2005 Feb;53(2):479-84. doi: 10.1002/mrm.20358.
This work presents a small tip-angle 3D tailored RF slab-select pulse for reducing the B1 field inhomogeneity at 3T. The compensated slice profile was determined from a B1 inhomogeneity map. SNR improvement and degree of artifact reduction were evaluated in a NiCl2 doped phantom and human brains. The technique was found to reduce inhomogeneities as large as 30% of the peak image magnitude in all three spatial directions in the brain using a standard head coil.
这项工作提出了一种小翻转角3D定制射频层选脉冲,用于减少3T场强下的B1场不均匀性。补偿后的切片轮廓由B1场不均匀性图谱确定。在掺NiCl2的体模和人脑上评估了信噪比的改善情况和伪影减少程度。结果发现,使用标准头部线圈时,该技术可在大脑的所有三个空间方向上减少高达峰值图像幅度30%的不均匀性。