Jeroen Cornelis Willem Siero1,2, Vincent Oltman Boer2, Johannus Marinus Hoogduin1,2, Peter R. Luijten2, Dennis W. Klomp2
1Brain Division, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands; 2Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
A novel shimming method was developed for finding optimal shim fields that minimize B0 inhomogeneities on a user-defined region of interest while confining the B0 inhomogeneities outside this ROI. Experiments show that employing this shimming approach, chemical shift imaging (CSI) can be obtained without baseline distortions while maintaining a narrow spectral line width.