The local tissue displacement induced by acoustic radiation force impulses (ARFI) during MR guided HIFU can be used to localize the focal spot position before thermal ablation and to monitor qualitative changes in tissue elasticity during ablation. However current MR-sequence implementations lack of spatial coverage, for a temporal resolution in the order of the timescale (<1Hz) of displacement changes during sonication. To address this limitation, we developed a simultaneous multislice MR-ARFI sequence with a slice acceleration factor up to 3. Displacement estimations measured with accelerated sequences are compared to reference values using a non-accelerated sequence.
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