Abstract #3768
Variable Flip Angle Design for Balanced SSFP Transient State Imaging to Improve HP 13 C MRI
Hong Shang 1,2 , Peder E.Z. Larson 1,2 , Galen Reed 3 , Eugene Milshteyn 1,2 , Cornelius von Morze 1 , Frank Ong 4 , Jeremy W. Gordon 1 , Jonathan I. Tamir 4 , and Daniel B. Vigneron 1
1
Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF, San
Francisco, California, United States,
2
UCSF-UC
Berkeley Graduate Program in Bioengineering, San
Francisco/Berkeley, California, United States,
3
HeartVista,
Menlo Park, California, United States,
4
Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley, Berkeley,
California, United States
A variable flip angle approach was designed for bSSFP
transient state imaging to improve signal profile
uniformity and off-resonance insensitivity by solving a
non-convex optimization problem. HP C-13 MRI
investigations with this variable flip angle scheme
resulted in less blurring and higher SNR.
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