Breast MRI can benefit from the improved signal-to-noise ratio brought by high-field systems to achieve finer spatial or temporal resolutions. However, dielectric resonance associated with the shorter RF wavelength provokes inhomogeneous excitation in the tissues. In this work, it was shown that such artefacts can induce hyperintensity in T2-weighted images, thus potentially misleading clinicians into excluding malignancy in a lesion. A solution is proposed to reduce the RF artefact on 3D T2w acquisitions using single-transmit-channel kT-points, which could be used on any 3T scanner.
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