Abstract #2318

Slice Acceleration of T1 Mapping of Brain Using Multi-Band Excitation Pulses

Atsushi M. Takahashi¹, Suchandrima Banerjee¹, Yuval Zur², Robert F. Dougherty³, Aviv Mezer⁴, Jason D. Yeatman⁴, Brian A. Wandell,³⁴, Douglas Kelley¹, Ajit Shankaranarayanan¹

¹Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, CA, United States; ²GE Healthcare, Tirat Carmel, Haifa, Israel; ³Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States; ⁴Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

Multi-Band excitation pulses and parallel imaging reconstruction methods are applied to making quantitative measurements of the NMR properties of tissue. Specifically, in this study, T1 measurements of brain were made using multi-band excitation pulses for decreasing acquisition time.