Mapping B1+ magnitude fields for any arbitrary RF-configuration of interest is desirable and often required in parallel multi-transmit systems. Conventional mapping methods work by taking either the magnitude ratio or the phase difference of MRI images, and thus they fail in regions of low MRI-signal which can easily occur for an arbitrary RF-configuration. We propose a new BSS based method which always uses the CP-mode for excitation while the RF-configuration of interest is used only for the off-resonance RF-pulse. Through this approach, the proposed method works even if the RF-configuration of interest has very-low magnitudes within the imaging volume.
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