Abstract
Introduction The clinical implementation of high-field CMR systems has introduced new challenges for cardiac imaging due to B0 and B1 field inhomogeneities. TSE Black-Blood sequences (BB) are compromised by dielectric artifacts, whereas SSFP cine-sequences are known to suffer from dark-band artifacts. The flip-angle non-uniformity across the field of view affects image homogeneity of both sequences. The use of a multi-source RF transmission system may help reduce dielectric effects, improve flip-angle uniformity and avoid local SAR peaks, thus allowing a shorter minimum TR/TE in SSFP-sequences.
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Open AccessClinical CMR at 3.0 Tesla using parallel RF transmission with patient-adaptive B1 shimming: initial experience
The clinical implementation of high-field CMR systems has introduced new challenges for cardiac imaging due to B0 and B1 field inhomogeneities
TSE Black-Blood sequences (BB) are compromised by dielectric artifacts, whereas SSFP cine-sequences are known to suffer from dark-band artifacts
Summary
Clinical CMR at 3.0 Tesla using parallel RF transmission with patient-adaptive B1 shimming: initial experience. Abstracts of the 13th Annual SCMR Scientific Sessions - 2010 Meeting abstracts - A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/files/pdf/1532-429X-11-S1-info
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