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Abstract #0519

Signal Leakage(L-Factor) as a Measure for Parallel Imaging Performance Among Simultaneously Multi-Slice (SMS) Excited & Acquired Signals

Steen Moeller1, Junqian Xu1, Edward J. Auerbach1, Essa Yacoub1, Kamil Ugurbil1

1Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States


A Monte-Carlo type analysis with a fixed spectral frequency driving function is introduced as a new metric (L-factor) for determining residual signal leakage for slice separation from simultaneous multi-slice acquisitions. Compared with the geometry factor for noise amplification, the metric is shown to be a better quantifiable metric for high acceleration factors.