Abstract #0177

Spectral-Spatial Pulse Design for Through-Plane Phase Precompensatory Slice Selection in T2*-Weighted Functional MRI

Chun-yu Yip¹, Daehyun Yoon², Valur Olafsson², Sangwoo Lee³, William A. Grissom⁴, Jeffrey A. Fessler², Douglas C. Noll⁵

¹A.A. Martinos Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA; ²Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; ³GE Healthcare, Waukesha, WI, USA; ⁴Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA; ⁵Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

T2*-weighted functional MR images suffer from signal loss artifacts caused by the magnetic susceptibility differences between air cavities and brain tissues.