Marcin Jankiewicz1,
William A. Grissom2
1MRC/UCT
Medical Imaging Research Unit, Department of Human Biology, University of
Cape Town, Observatory, Western Cape, South Africa; 2Department of
Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
We introduce a new hybrid excitation and off-resonance B1+-encoding pulse that enables Bloch-Siegert B1+ mapping with a much shorter TE, enabling mapping of short-T2 species.