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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 22.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2016 Mar 21;75(6):2464–2472. doi: 10.1002/mrm.26194

FIG. 4.

FIG. 4

Local SAR distribution for the three RF arrays when designing pulses to excite coronal slices at a constant RMSE of 0.024. Sagittal Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP) images of 10g SAR of the two single-band (SB) pulses are depicted for each of the six odd numbered multiband (MB) pulses. The 12 SB pulse components for which SAR is shown are indexed by two numbers in parentheses, with the first number counting the MB pulses and the second number the SB component, e.g., (3,2) means it is the second SB component of the third MB pulse. The position of each of the 12 odd numbered target slices is indicated by a yellow box in the bottom row. Note that the SB pulses exhibited lower and more localized SAR for the 2×8 array than for the other two arrays.