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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2014
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (US);
John Mugler, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Dominik Paul, Bubenreuth, DE;
University of Virginia Patent Foundation, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
In a method and apparatus for magnetic resonance data acquisition, data are acquired according to a single-slab three-dimensional turbo or fast spin-echo pulse sequence, wherein the inner volume selection in the phase-encoding direction takes place by radiating a pair of adiabatic RF pulses, instead of the single refocusing RF pulse that is conventional. The radiation of the adiabatic RF pulses allows a high RF pulse bandwidth to be achieved, for a given limit on the peak radio-frequency field strength. Such a high RF pulse bandwidth reduces off-resonance-related artifacts.