title: Compensation of multi-dimensional selective excitation pulses using measured k-space trajectories.
abstract: Multidimensional spatially selective excitation pulses rely on the accuracy of gradient waveforms to achieve desired excitation volumes. Unfortunately, the high gradient slew-rates and magnitudes required by these pulses often lead to distortion of the waveforms produced by imaging systems resulting in poor selection profiles. In this paper, a k-space calibration procedure, used to determine the actual trajectory produced by the scanner's field gradients, is extended to two spatial dimensions. This measured information is then incorporated in a selective excitation design technique for correcting the RF pulse envelopes to compensate for gradient waveform induced distortion of the excitation volumes.
authors.affiliation: McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, Department of Biomedical Engineering, McGill University, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Peters
mesh_terms: D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D055585:Physical Phenomena; D010825:Physics