Guobin Li1, Mathias Nittka2,
Dominik Paul2, Wei Jun Zhang1
1Siemens Mindit Magnetic
Resonance Ltd., Shenzhen, Guang Dong, China, People's Republic of; 2Siemens
Healthcare Sector, Erlangen
In SEMAC and SEMAC-MAVRIC hybrid sequences, additional z-phase encoding steps are used to correct the through-plane distortion. But the preknowledge of the distortion degree is needed to determine the extension factor of the z-phase encoding. In this work, a method to scout the through-plane distortion by applying the readout gradient in slice direction is presented, which can be fully integrated into SEMAC and SEMAC-MAVRIC hybrid sequence.