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Abstract #2687

Multi-Slice N-Fold Acceleration with Scalable Digital Transmit and Receive Systems

Andrzej Jesmanowicz1, William J. OReilly2

1Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States; 2Tornado Medical Systems, Toronto, ON, Canada


A System is presented that demonstrates a fully digital transmit and receive system for multislice EPI acceleration. The transmit system is based on a TI DAC5688 chip, which provides superior tailored pulse generation with almost two orders of magnitude lower spurious inter-modulated frequencies. A 32 channel coil is used to measure the 4-slice separation of simultaneous axial slice excitation.