gSlider is an efficient technique for diffusion MRI that uses multiple RF encodings to encode high-resolution spatial information along the slice dimension. In this work, we investigate whether smooth-phase constraints can be used to reduce the required number of RF encodings. Although smooth-phase constraints are classically used to reduce k-space sampling (partial Fourier acquisition), we believe that their use to reduce RF encoding requirements is novel. Theoretical and simulation results demonstrate that, if optimized RF encodings are used, phase constraints can successfully be used to reduce the number of required RF encodings in image regions where the phase is smooth.
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