1Applied Science Laboratory, GE
Healthcare, San Francisco, CA, United States; 2Radiology and
Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco,
CA, United States
The
design of practical B1 compensation schemes requires knowledge of the
statistical properties of the B1 distribution found in vivo. An analysis of
B1 maps in the brain of 10 human subjects is presented, identifying several
common features and highlighting the non-Gaussian nature of the distribution.