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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: NMR Biomed. 2011 Jul 15;25(1):152–160. doi: 10.1002/nbm.1727

Table 1.

Relative transmit efficiencies (RTE), i.e. ratios (mean ± SD) of the B1+ maps after to before B1+ shimming, averaged over the different regions of interest.

Region of Interest RTE
(After / Before B1+ shimming)
Occipital cortex 2.5 ± 0.2
Posterior cingulate 1.4 ± 0.4
Frontal white matter 1.9 ± 0.2
Putamen 1.6 ± 0.2
Substantia nigra 1.2 ± 0.1
Pons 1.3 ± 0.1
Cerebellar vermis 3.3 ± 0.3