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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2012 Apr 17;69(3):657–666. doi: 10.1002/mrm.24289

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Ability of the tip-up pulse to align magnetization within the imaging slice along the longitudinal axis. (a) Residual transverse magnetization immediately after the tip-up pulse (time-point “2” in Fig. 1), phantom observations. Seven slices are shown. The signal in the desired imaging region (center slice) is significantly suppressed compared with neighboring slices, indicating that the tip-up pulse aligns most of the magnetization with the longitudinal axis, as desired. (b) Predicted magnetization for the center slice, Bloch simulation results. Simulated and observed residual magnetization patterns are in good agreement.