A
new simultaneous multi-slice excitation method was proposed to reduce RF power
delivery by only concerning slice profiles within the imaging object. Compared to
MultiPINS, our approach used only 79% of the RF energy to the same result (slice
thickness = 3mm, MB factor = 5, 4 bandwidth time product, excitation duration
6380 $$$\mu s$$$). This
excitation method was experimentally demonstrated in spin-echo EPI with blipped
CAIPI acquisition.
