Synopsis

Keywords: Physics & Engineering: High-Field MRI, Musculoskeletal: Joints

The use of high field strengths opened new venues for MR imaging of MSK tissues. In this educational lecture, we will focus on parallel transmission techniques that will overcome challenges associated with high field strengths. The audience will learn the basic principles of parallel transmission and its use in MSK applications.

High-field strength MRI has been effectively used for acquiring high-spatial resolution MSK images. Overcoming the challenges associated with high field strength opened new ways of our understanding of MSK diseases.
In the first section of the talk, we will focus on providing basic principles of parallel transmission (pTx) and how they can be used to facilitate MSK imaging. We will go over the challenges associated with high field strengths and how pTx offers a solution for those challenges¹. In the second half of the talk, we will focus on multi-excite approaches that provide efficient acquisitions of MSK tissues tissues^2,3. We will briefly review RF pulse sequences, how they are used in clinical practice, and their potential limitations.
At the end of the lecture, the audience is expected to be able to identify the multi-transmit and excite needs for their specific MSK research problems.

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