Abstract #0921

GRATER-based RF pulse predistortion improves multiband bSSFP imaging

Vanessa Landes¹ and Krishna S. Nayak²

¹Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, ²Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States

We present a hardware-free way to mitigate RF envelope error that has the potential to be extremely fast (<1 min), and to benefit simultaneous multislice (SMS) balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) imaging. This approach improves RF waveform fidelity 9-fold in a variety of multiband pulses, and correspondingly reduces bSSFP spurious side-lobe excitation 3-fold. This provides 4-fold reduction in SMS bSSFP side-lobe signal.

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