Hans Weber1,
Sebastian Littin1, Gigi Galiana2, Feng Jia1,
Anna M. Welz1, Robert Todd Constable2, 3,
Jrgen Hennig1, Maxim Zaitsev1
1Department
of Radiology, Medical Physics, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg,
Germany; 2Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT,
United States; 3Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New
Haven, CT, United States
ExLoc allows excitation and geometrically matched spatial encoding of curved slices by the application of a set of nonlinear, but locally orthogonal, encoding fields. So far the concept could be demonstrated for slices with one curved dimension. In this study, we apply ExLoc to a planar gradient system, generating field components with nonlinear variation along all three dimensions. For the first time, this allows selection and encoding of slices with two curved dimensions.