New Phase-Based B-1 Mapping Method Using Two-Dimensional Spin-Echo Imaging with Hyperbolic Secant Pulses

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PurposeTo propose a new phase-based B-1-mapping method that exploits phase information created by hyperbolic secant (HS) pulses in conventional 2D spin-echo imaging. MethodsIn this B-1-mapping method, HS pulses are used to accomplish /2 excitation and refocusing in standard multislice spin-echo imaging. When setting the ratio of pulse lengths of the /2 and HS pulses to 2:1, the spin-echo phase is independent of offset frequency and varies as a function of B-1 strength. To eliminate undesired phase accumulations induced by unknown factors other than the B-1 strength, two spin-echo images are acquired using HS pulses applied with opposite frequency-sweep directions, and the resulting phase images are subtracted from each other. To demonstrate the performance of the proposed method, phantom and in vivo experiments were performed using a surface coil and a volume coil. ResultsThe B-1 maps obtained by using the proposed method were in accordance with the B-1 maps obtained using previous methods in both phantom and in vivo experiments. ConclusionThe proposed method is easy to implement without any sequence modification, is insensitive to B-0 inhomogeneity and chemical shift, and is robust in a reasonably wide range of B-1 field strength. Magn Reson Med 73:170-181, 2015.
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WILEY-BLACKWELL
Issue Date
2015-01
Language
English
Article Type
Article
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MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE, v.73, no.1, pp.170 - 181

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0740-3194
DOI
10.1002/mrm.25110
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http://hdl.handle.net/10203/195184
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