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Abstract #0385

Spatial Selection Through Multi-Coil Magnetic Field Shaping

Christoph Juchem1, Terence W. Nixon1, Peter B. Brown1, Scott McIntyre1, Douglas L. Rothman1, Robin A. de Graaf1

1MR Research Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA


Magnetic field modeling with the multi-coil approach has been used to generate anatomy-matched magnetic field shapes that are spatially specific enough for the selective excitation of individual regions in 2-dimensional slices with single frequency-selective RF pulses. The low SAR method is demonstrated for brain extraction and outer-volume-suppression (i.e. excitation of everything but the brain) in the mouse at 9.4 Tesla.