Abstract #4646

Enhancement of the Negative BOLD Response with DANTE-EPI

Linqing Li¹, Yuhui Chai¹, Andy Derbyshire¹, Karla Miller², Peter Jezzard², and Peter Bandettini¹

¹National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States, ²Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

We derived and verified an equation for the theoretical description of longitudinal magnetization for pass- and transition-band bSSFP at steady state. In addition, we show evidence that a DANTE (b-SSFP) preparation module may be employed with an EPI readout to increase negative BOLD response by 12.8% in average (p<0.03) compared to conventional EPI (GE-EPI).

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