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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2020
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (US);
Avery J. L. Berman, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Jonathan R. Polimeni, Cambridge, MA (US);
William A. Grissom, Nashville, TN (US);
Kawin Setsompop, Charlestown, MA (US);
Thomas Witzel, Boston, MA (US);
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
Described here are systems and methods for producing images with a magnetic resonance imaging ('MRI') system using a high-resolution, motion-robust, artifact-free segmented echo planar imaging (“EPI”) technique. In particular, a fast low angle excitation echo planar imaging technique (“FLEET”) using variable flip angle (“VFA”) radio frequency (“RF”) excitation pulses that are recursively designed to have a flat magnitude and phase profile across a slice for a range of different flip angles by accounting for longitudinal magnetization remaining after each preceding RF pulse is applied.