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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2011 Nov 29;68(1):286–304. doi: 10.1002/mrm.23198

Fig. 12.

Fig. 12

Ideal current patterns resulting in the lowest possible SAR with RF shimming, during the excitation of a homogeneous flip-angle profile across a transverse plane through the center of the sphere. The distributed loop shapes at 1.5 T are compared with increasingly complex patterns at higher field strength.