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Abstract #0206

Application of Kt-Points to Human Brain Imaging At 7 Tesla

Martijn Anton Cloos1,2, Nicolas Boulant1, Guillaume Ferrand2, Michel Luong2, Christopher J. Wiggins1, Denis Le Bihan1, Alexis Amadon1

1LRMN, CEA, DSV, I2BM, NeuroSpin, Gif-Sur-Yvette, ile-de-France, France; 2CEA, DSM, IRFU, Gif-Sur-Yvette, ile-de-France, France


Transmit-SENSE gives the opportunity to implement short excitation pulses with good flip-angle homogeneity at high field. Recently, a novel non-selective pulse design, referred to as kT-points, was presented which enables sub-millisecond pulses with excellent spatially uniform excitation properties over an extended volume. In this abstract, for the first time, application of this novel pulse design to human brain imaging at 7 Tesla is presented.