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Medientyp: E-Artikel Titel: Variable‐rate selective excitation for rapid MRI sequences Beteiligte: Hargreaves, Brian A.; Cunningham, Charles H.; Nishimura, Dwight G.; Conolly, Steven M. Erschienen: Wiley, 2004 Erschienen in: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Sprache: Englisch DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20168 ISSN: 0740-3194; 1522-2594 Schlagwörter: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging Entstehung: Anmerkungen: Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Balanced steady‐state free precession (SSFP) imaging sequences require short repetition times (TRs) to avoid off‐resonance artifacts. The use of slab‐selective excitations is common, as this can improve imaging speed by limiting the field of view (FOV). However, the necessarily short‐duration excitations have poor slab profiles. This results in unusable slices at the slab edge due to significant flip‐angle variations or aliasing in the slab direction. Variable‐rate selective excitation (VERSE) is a technique by which a time‐varying gradient waveform is combined with a modified RF waveform to provide the same excitation profile with different RF power and duration characteristics. With the use of VERSE, it is possible to design short‐duration pulses with dramatically improved slab profiles. These pulses achieve high flip angles with only minor off‐resonance sensitivity, while meeting SAR limits at 1.5 T. The improved slab profiles will enable more rapid 3D imaging of limited volumes, with more consistent image contrast across the excited slab. Magn Reson Med 52:590–597, 2004. © 2004 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.</jats:p>