Parallel Transmission

Hall 15.2/Stockholm 10:30 - 12:30 Chairs: Ulrich Katscher and Douglas C. Noll

Time

Prog #

 
10:30 671.

In Vivo Parallel RF Excitation with B0 Correction

Kawin Setsompop1, Adam C. Zelinski1, Vijay Anand Alagappan2, Juergen Nistler3, Ulrich Joerg Fontius3, Franz Hebrank4, Franz Schmitt3, Larry L. Wald5, Elfar Adalsteinsson1

1Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; 2A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; 3Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; 4Siemens Medical Solutions, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; 5A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

10:42 672.

Parallel Excitation Experiments Using a Novel Direct Calibration Technique for RF-Pulse Determination

Peter Ullmann1, Sven Junge2, Frank Seifert3, Wolfgang Ruhm2, Jürgen Hennig1

1University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; 2Bruker BioSpin MRI GmbH, Ettlingen, Germany; 3Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin, Germany
 

10:54 673.

SAR Reduction in Transmit SENSE Using Adapted Excitation K-Space Trajectories

Xiaoping Wu1, Can Akgun1, J. Thomas Vaughan1, Kamil Ugurbil1, Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele1

1University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

 

11:06 674.

SAR Reduction for Parallel Transmission Using VERSE and K-Space Filtering

Ingmar Graesslin1, Sven Biederer1, Ferdinand Schweser1, Karl-Heinz Zimmermann2, Ulrich Katscher1, Peter Börnert1

1Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany; 2TU-Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg, Germany
 

11:18 675.

Electrodynamic Constraints on Minimum SAR in Parallel Excitation

Riccardo Lattanzi1, 2, Aaron K. Grant2, Daniel K. Sodickson1, 2, Yudong Zhu3

1Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; 2Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 3GE Global Research, Niskayuna, New York, USA

 

11:30 676.

Time-Segmented Spin Domain Method for Fast Large-Tip-Angle RF Pulse Design in Parallel Excitation

William A. Grissom1, Jeffrey A. Fessler1, Douglas C. Noll1

1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

 

11:42 677.

High Flip Angle Slice Selective Parallel RF Excitation on an 8-Channel System at 3T

Kawin Setsompop1, Adam C. Zelinski1, Vijay Anand Alagappan2, Ulrich Joerg Fontius3, Franz Hebrank4, Franz Schmitt3, Larry L. Wald5, Elfar Adalsteinsson1

                               1Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; 2A. A. Martinos Center for
                        Biomedical Imaging, MGH, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA;
                               3
Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; 4Siemens Medical

Solutions, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; 5A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

 

11:54 678.

Minimum Norm Parallel Transmit Pulse Design

Florian Wiesinger1, Mika Vogel1, Patrick Gross1, Graeme McKinnon2, LeRoy Blawat2, Eddy Boskamp2, Joseph Piel3, Yudong Zhu3, Hartmut Koenig1

1GE Global Research Europe, Munich, Germany; 2GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA; 3GE Global Research, Niskayuna, New York, USA
 

12:06 679.

B1-Gradient Based MRI Using a Multi-Element Transmit System

Ulrich Katscher1, Jonathan Lisinski2, Peter Boernert1, Ingmar Graesslin1

1Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany; 2University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

 

12:18 680.

Phase Encoding Without Gradients Using TRASE-FSE MRI

Scott B. King1, Peter Latta1, Vyacheslav Volotovskyy1, Jonathan C. Sharp1, Boguslaw Tomanek1

1National Research Council of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada