Dual‐Echo EPI sequence for integrated distortion correction in 3D time‐resolved hyperpolarized 13C MRI

To provide built‐in off‐resonance correction in time‐resolved, volumetric hyperpolarized 13C metabolic imaging by implementing a novel dual‐echo 3D echo‐planar imaging (EPI) sequence and reconstruction.

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