The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.

Hakon Gudbjartsson

Stephan E Maier

Magnetic resonance imaging appparaus and methods, including providing selective radio frequency pulses including pairs of pulses, which define planes with an intersection that defines an imaging volume. The imaging volumes are part of a first image surface passing through the sample and having a spatial orientation that differs from the spatial orientation of the planes. The method further includes providing magnetic diffusion gradients in the sample which are associated with at least a subset of the volumes, and acquiring a series of nuclear magnetic resonance echo signals resulting from the intersection, with at least a subset of the echo signals being responsive to the gradients. The signals are processed to obtain an image that includes lines corresponding to the imaging volumes.

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Brookline, MA, United States of America

Hakon Gudbjartsson