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Banding artifacts reduction for lumbosacral plexus imaging with balanced FFE (b-FFE)
Geli Hu1, Jiazheng Wang1, Qingping Gu1, Yang Zhang1, and Jianxia Cao1
1Philips Healthcare, Beijing, China
Our results demonstrated the potential clinical application of the proposed RF phase cycling scheme for lumbosacral plexus imaging, which yielded improved image quality and reduced banding artifacts when compared to the traditional b-FFE technique.

Figure 1.A healthy volunteer, 56-year-old male.

Left: Coronal B-FFE-XD image of the lumbosacral plexus. Right: Coronal B-FFE image of the lumbosacral plexus