Abstract #2453

A Modified Variable Fip Angle Using a Predefiend Slice Profile in a Consecutive Interleaved EPI

Dae-Hun Kang¹, Jun-Young Chung¹, Da-Eun Kim¹, Young-Bo Kim¹, Zang-Hee Cho¹

¹Neuroscience Research Institute, Gachon University of Medicine and Science, Incheon, Korea, Republic of

We re-calculated a VFA considering a predefined slice excitation profile without changing RF excitation pulse by a computer simulation. By applying a modified VFA to consecutive interleaved multi-shot EPI (ciEPI) schemes, a intersegment magnitude variation was reduced and a SNR of images was improved.