Multi Slice Localized Parallel Excitation for Abdominal & Pelvic EPI Applications in Humans

Denis Kokorin^1,2, Martin Haas¹, Frederik Testud¹, Jrgen Hennig¹, Maxim Zaitsev¹

Parallel transmission in combination with spatially selective excitation allows a reduction of field of view in the phase encoding direction. In this study this novel principle is examined for multi slice inner volume imaging and the advantages for artifact suppression in EPI are presented. The method was successfully implemented for DWI applications on Siemens MAGNETOM TRIO human system.