Application of Kt-Points to Human Brain Imaging At 7 Tesla

Martijn Anton Cloos^1,2, Nicolas Boulant¹, Guillaume Ferrand², Michel Luong², Christopher J. Wiggins¹, Denis Le Bihan¹, Alexis Amadon¹

Transmit-SENSE gives the opportunity to implement short excitation pulses with good flip-angle homogeneity at high field. Recently, a novel non-selective pulse design, referred to as k_T-points, was presented which enables sub-millisecond pulses with excellent spatially uniform excitation properties over an extended volume. In this abstract, for the first time, application of this novel pulse design to human brain imaging at 7 Tesla is presented.