1Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2Erwin L Hahn Institute, University Duisburg Essen, Essen, Germany
This abstract describes the use of pulses that have a quadratic phase profile in the spatial dimension for simultaneous multi-slice imaging. The quadratic profile reduces the peak voltage needed by an amount dependent on the number of simultaneously excited slices. The pulses have to be used as an excitation-refocusing pair, with the refocusing pulse having half the phase gradient. The echoes from each slice are simultaneously refocused and there are no additional constraints on the pulse duration.
