The large water-fat frequency difference at 7 T renders imaging of the musculoskeletal (MSK) anatomy very challenging. In particular, through-slice chemical-shift artifacts may manifest in state-of-the-art 2D turbo-spin-echo (TSE) images as partial or locally complete fat-signal loss that radiologists are usually not trained to account for from lower field strengths. In this work, we demonstrate the range of possible through-slice artifacts in MSK images and show that matched RF-pulse bandwidths as high as 1500 Hz for the excitation and refocusing RF-pulses are necessary to consistently perform successful, non-fat suppressed MSK imaging at 7 T.
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