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  • Title: Selective excitation of two-dimensional arbitrarily shaped voxels with parallel excitation in spectroscopy.
    Author: Snyder J, Haas M, Hennig J, Zaitsev M.
    Journal: Magn Reson Med; 2012 Feb; 67(2):300-9. PubMed ID: 21721040.
    Abstract:
    Parallel excitation is being studied intensively for applications in MR imaging and in particular for selecting arbitrary shapes as regions of interest. In this work, parallel excitation was applied to arbitrarily shaped voxel selection in spectroscopy and investigated for different excitation k-space trajectories (radial, rectilinear, and spiral) and acceleration factors. Each trajectory was segmented into multiple excitations to increase the overall bandwidth during target selection. Acceleration by parallel excitation was used to decrease the number of segments. Evaluation of spatial and spectral localization of the target of interest was performed in simulation and phantom experiments, and was compared with the point resolved spectroscopy (PRESS) experiment with standard voxels. The selective excitation experiments demonstrated excellent spatial localization and a broad frequency response, although PRESS was superior in direct comparisons with respect to signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and outer volume suppression. Extensive SNR variation was observed dependent on trajectory (8%-90%), with the preferred radial case producing approximately 40%-60% SNR of the PRESS case. Accelerated trajectories at R = 4 provided comparable artifact signal and target excitation accuracy compared with their nonaccelerated counterparts; however, further acceleration (R = 8) resulted in increased artifact (33% increase at R = 8).
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