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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Dec 28.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 1999 Jun;9(6):847–852. doi: 10.1002/(sici)1522-2586(199906)9:6<847::aid-jmri13>3.0.co;2-d

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Balanced reference scan technique. In the first acquisition, the readout echo train acquires standard reference data with no phase-encoding blips. The second acquisition is identical, except that the polarity of the readout gradient is reversed, as shown. Comparison of echoes acquired at the same time after RF excitation will remove bias from inhomogeneities.