Magic-echo phase-encoding solid imaging with improved time resolution.
The magic-echo phase-encoding solid imaging (MEPSI) sequence is based on the magic-echo pulse sequence for the refocusing of the dipolar interaction and on pure phase-encoding for spatial resolution in all dimensions. MEPSI has many advantages; however, as a consequence of pure phase-encoding, it is very time-consuming. In the following, two strategies are proposed to decrease the time necessary for the acquisition of an image by a factor of 2 per dimension.
Hafner
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Fraunhofer-Institut für Biomedizinische Technik, Arbeitsgruppe Magnetische Resonanz, St. Ingbert, Germany.
Barth
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D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods*