FIGURE 2.

Left column: transmit radiofrequency amplitude and gradients for the considered pulse types (top row: circular polarized (CP) mode pulse; middle row: flip angle optimized k_T‐points pulse; bottom row: hybrid [HY] optimized k_T‐points pulse). Their resulting flip angle and $B_1^{\mathrm{rms}}$ maps are shown in the middle and right columns, respectively, with the average ± SD of each property depicted below. Target flip angle 15° in all cases, target $B_1^{\mathrm{rms}}$ $0.42$ μT for the HY pulse (λ = 0.5).