Multi-Channel Application Suite

Features

• 2D PACE (Prospective Acquisition CorrEction)
• LOTA (Long Term Data Averaging) technique for motion and flow artifact reduction without increasing scan time
• Elliptical scanning reduces scan time for 3D imaging
• Selectable centric elliptical phase reordering via the user interface
• Inversion Recovery to nullify the signal of fat, fluid or any other tissue
• True Inversion Recovery to obtain strong T1-weighted contrast
• Dark blood inversion recovery technique that nulls fluid blood signal
• Saturation Recovery for 2D TurboFLASH, gradient echo, and T1-weighted 3D TurboFLASH with short scan time (e.g. MPRAGE)
• Presaturation Technique. RF saturation pulses to suppress flow and motion artifacts. Up to six saturation bands may be positioned in any orientation
• Tracking SAT Bands maintain constant saturation of venous and/ or arterial blood flow, e.g. for 2D/3D sequential MRA
• Water Excitation. Spectral selective RF pulses for exclusive water excitation
• Dixon for fat and water separation
• RF Fat Saturation. Spectral selective RF pulses for saturation of fat
• MTC (Magnetization Transfer Contrast). Off-resonance RF pulses to suppress signal from certain tissues, thus enhancing the contrast. Used e.g. in MRA
• TONE (Tilted Optimized Non-saturating Excitation). Variable excitation flip angle to compensate inflow saturation effects in 3D MRA. TONE pulse selectable depending on
• GMR (Gradient Motion Rephasing). Sequences with additional bipolar gradient pulses, permitting effective reduction of flow artifacts
• Freely adjustable receiver bandwidth, permitting studies with increased signal-to-noise ratio
• Freely adjustable flip angle. Optimized RF pulses for image contrast enhancement and increased signal-to-noise ratio
• Simultaneous Excitation. Doubles the number of slices per TR for 2D GRE
• Integrated Parallel Acquisition Technique (iPAT)
• PAT averaging for motion artifact suppression using Self-Calibration