Abstract
A method for automated shimming of B 0 in whole body imaging magnets is demonstrated. The method employs spectroscopic imaging [ T. R. Brown, B. M. Kincaid, and K. Ugurbil, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 79, 3532, 1982 ] of 1H to map the B 0 field of the region of interest with the subject in situ. Correction currents for the shims, based on prior measurement of shim fields versus shim currents, are then calculated and applied by computer. The chief application of the method is shimming for multivoxel spectroscopy examinations in vivo wherein it is shown to produce marked improvement of 31P spectra from spectroscopic imaging exams of brain and calf muscle, in normal and diseased subjects.
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