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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 8.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2008 May;59(5):1072–1078. doi: 10.1002/mrm.21540

Figure 8.

Figure 8

Slice selection for a spherical agar phantom using a standard birdcage head coil at 3T. Image of selected slice, obtained with a GRE sequence using (A) the STABLE pulse and (B) a conventional Hamming-windowed sinc pulse for excitation. Acquisition parameters were: TE/TR=14.2/500 ms, slice thickness=5 mm and matrix size=256×256. Vertical cross section of several such images, showing the slice profile, obtained using (C) the STABLE pulse and (D) the conventional sinc pulse, both scaled from +70% to -60% of their nominal B1 value. Variation in slice profile is much more severe for the sinc than the STABLE pulse.