Ouri Cohen1,
2, Assaf Tal3, Oded Gonen4
1Center
for Biomedical Imaging, NYU , New York, NY, United States; 2Biomedical
Engineering, Columbia University , New York, NY, United States; 3Center
for Biomedical Imaging, NYU, New York, NY, United States; 4Center
for Biomedical Imaging, New York University, New York, NY, United States
Transverse Hadamard spectroscopic imaging (T-HSI) has been shown to overcome the intrinsic signal-to-noise loss and increased bleed of chemical shift imaging by virtue of its approaching-ideal point-spread-function. However, because it uses a superposition of pulses, it is less suited for higher fields where the available B1 is smaller. In this work we demonstrate a method that overcomes this limitation and allows maintaining the benefits of T-HSI despite the higher (3T) field strength.