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Abstract #4195

Pure balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) imaging

Jessica Schäper1,2, Grzegorz Bauman1,2, Carl Ganter3, and Oliver Bieri1,2
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 2Department of Radiology, Division of Radiological Physics, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 3Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

For some tissues bSSFP shows a distinct asymmetry in its frequency response function. Theoretical considerations indicate that this asymmetry disappears in the limit of $$$\mathit{TR} \rightarrow 0$$$. This was studied experimentally at $$$3\,\mathrm{T}$$$ in the present work. The frequency response of bSSFP was investigated for in vivo brain for varying repetition time $$$\mathit{TR} = \{1.5,3,5\}\,\mathrm{ms}$$$. Our results give strong evidence that the asymmetry vanishes in the limit of $$$\mathit{TR} \sim 1\,\mathrm{ms}$$$ and therefore indicate that bSSFP forgets about the spectral composition and thus becomes ''pure''.

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