Minimizing artifacts in 129Xe gas exchange MRI requires selectively exciting the broad dissolved phase resonances, without exciting the much larger gas phase pool. This requires not only a short, selective pulse, but also overcoming pulse distortions imposed by the RF amplifier. Here, we demonstrate a novel, practical RF pulse based on augmenting the traditional Hanning window pulse with tunable DC bias and sub-lobes in the time-domain. We characterized the performance through simulations, phantom, and in vivo testing and determined that the tunable DC bias parameter creates a robust dissolved-phase excitation while minimizing gas-phase contamination.
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