Adam B. Kerr1, Duan Xu2, Peder
E.Z. Larson2, Daniel B. Vigneron2, John M. Pauly1
1Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States; 2Radiology &
Biomedical Imaging, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, United States
Minimum-duration adiabatic spectral-spatial refocusing pulses are designed by using an alternate frequency sweep than the conventional hyperbolic secant pulse. A 55% reduction in pulse duration from 26 to 11.7 ms is demonstrated, at the cost of higher SAR and larger spectral transition bands. This approach will provide a significant decrease in the minimum TE for PRESS-localized MRSI sequences that use two of these pulses.