Zero-gradient-excitation ramped hybrid encoding (zGRF -RHE) sodium MRI.
Yasmin BlunckBradford A MoffatScott C KolbeRoger J OrdidgeJon O ClearyLeigh A JohnstonPublished in: Magnetic resonance in medicine (2018)
zGRF -RHE allows for artifact-free high flip angle excitation with time-efficient encoding improving on image characteristics. This hybrid encoding concept with gradient pre-ramping is trajectory independent and can be introduced in any center-out UTE trajectory design.