This work presents in vivo experimental result of high-flip-angle multi-dimensional parallel transmission at a 9.4T human whole-body MRI scanner. A 2D pTx saturation pulse (90°) and a slice selective 3D pTx excitation pulse (60°) were designed by using an algorithm that combines LSQR and optimal control (OC) methods and enables high-flip-angle pTx pulse design with a strict constraint of transmit power. An actual flip angle imaging (AFI) sequence was coded to measure the flip angle map of the pre-saturated slice excitation profile achieved by the sequentially implemented pTx pulses.
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