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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 7.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Imaging Syst Technol. 2012 Feb 14;22(1):23–32. doi: 10.1002/ima.21296

Figure 1.

Figure 1

bSSFP signal profile for (a) a large flip angle (25°) with phase-cycling and (b) a small flip angle (5°) with no phase-cycling. Pass-band bSSFP fMRI utilizes the wide flat region in the magnitude profile in (a) whereas transition-band bSSFP fMRI uses the steep phase change in (b).