Curved Slice Functional Imaging

Hans Weber¹, Daniel Gallichan¹, Jakob Asslnder¹, Jrgen Hennig¹, Maxim Zaitsev¹

The ExLoc concept enables excitation and geometrically matched spatial encoding of curved slices with variable curvature, orientation and position. This allows a better adaptation of the slice geometry to the anatomy under investigation. In this study we apply the ExLoc concept to echo planar imaging and present preliminary results from a curved slice fMRI experiment.