Fig. 7.
Bloch-simulated spoke placement comparisons for forming the dual-vein target on the eight-channel parallel excitation system at 3 T. Error and voltage statistics versus number of spokes (T) are shown for the Fourier, inversion, and sparsity-enforced placement methods. Upper-left: RMSE versus T. Lower-left: maximum error versus T. Upper-right: max VRMS across all eight channels versus T. Lower-right: max Vpeak across all eight channels versus T. For all algorithms, the duration of a T-spoke pulse is close to 0.47T + 0.65 ms.