Improving the performance of diffusion-weighted inner field-of-view echo-planar imaging based on 2D-selective radiofrequency excitations by tilting the excitation plane.

Abstract

To improve the performance and flexibility of diffusion-weighted inner field-of-view (FOV) echo-planar imaging (EPI) based on 2D-selective radiofrequency (RF) excitations by 1) using higher gradient amplitudes for outer excitation lines, and 2) tilting the excitation plane such that the unwanted side excitations do not overlap with the current image slice or other slices to be acquired.

Bibliografische Daten

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer4
ISSN1053-1807
StatusVeröffentlicht - 2012
pubmed 22170770