Abstract #0199

Universal pulses for the cervical spinal cord at 7T: a feasibility study

Daniel Papp¹, Nicolas Boulant², Aurelien Massire³, Frank Mauconduit², Vincent Gras², and Julien Cohen-Adad^1,4,5,6

¹NeuroPoly Lab, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²University of Paris-Saclay, CEA, NeuroSpin, CNRS, BAOBAB, Gif sur Yvette, France, ³Siemens Healthcare SAS, Saint-Denis, France, ⁴Mila - Quebec AI Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁵Functional Neuroimaging Unit, Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁶Centre de recherche du CHU Sainte-Justine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada

Synopsis

Keywords: Parallel Transmit & Multiband, Spinal CordWhile the Universal Pulse approach to mitigate the RF field inhomogeneity effect has been successfully deployed in brain imaging, adoption in spinal cord imaging is lacking. Here, we demonstrate the feasibility of designing Universal Pulses for the cervical spinal cord at 7T, and show a marked improvement for signal intensity in the upper thoracic cord.

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