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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2009 Jul;62(1):193–204. doi: 10.1002/mrm.21990

Figure 9.

Figure 9

Phantom images were acquired to demonstrate the created magnetization profiles, where the precession frequency was vertically varied with a linear field gradient in that direction. The ATR-SSFP, 3-1-1, and 2-2-1-1 images are shown in order from left to right. Water and fat resonances at 1.5 T are marked with the dashed black and white lines respectively. The multiple-TR sequences have significantly more uniform pass-bands than ATR. Meanwhile, the 2-2-1-1 sequence has the broadest stop-band and the highest level of suppression. The suppression in separate segments of the stop-band can be independently improved with linear combinations as shown in Comb. 1 and 2. Finally, a mIP of these combinations yields enhanced suppression over the whole stop-band.