Abstract #0389

Velocity Encoded and Compensated Multi-Spoke RF Pulses for Flow Quantification at Ultra-High Fields

Simon Schmidt¹, Sebastian Flassbeck¹, Mathies Breithaupt^1,2, Peter Bachert¹, Mark E. Ladd¹, and Sebastian Schmitter^1,3

¹Medical Physics in Radiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, ²Institute for Forensic Medicine and Traffic Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, ³Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig and Berlin, Germany

In this work we present and demonstrate a novel technique to generate multi-spoke RF excitation with arbitrary zeroth and first gradient moments, allowing for clean flow imaging without errors. The RF pulses are demonstrated in flow phantoms and in-vivo at 7 Tesla, paving the road for 4D flow imaging using pTX spoke excitation.

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