Optimal control RF pulse design has recently been proposed to address the optimization of image contrast in MRI - in order to explore the theoretical contrast bound of a given imaged system. Their use has recently been validated on a real MRI scanner to contrast various in vitro samples. This abstract extends these results to in vivo applications, and shows that contrasts obtained with standard weighting strategies on rat and mouse brains can be improved or inverted. This demonstrates both the interest and flexibility that one can get when using optimal contrast pulses for in vitro and in vivo applications.
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