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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomed Phys Eng Express. 2017 Mar 9;3(2):027001. doi: 10.1088/2057-1976/aa6228

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Simulation of the slice initial signal profile and steady state signal profile for the RF pulse with slice excitation profile shown. Three different cases are demonstrated: the single slice acquisition case, a three slice multi-slice acquisition with large interslice gap (no slice crosstalk), and a three slice mutli-slice acquisition with zero interslice gap (showing slice crosstalk). The top row of each case uses a low flip angle that is close to the ideal maximum contrast flip angle (when an ideal slice excitation profile is assumed). The bottom row of each case utilizes a higher flip angle that is close to the actual maximum contrast flip angle.