Parameter estimation approach to banding artifact reduction in balanced steady‐state free precession

The balanced steady‐state free precession (bSSFP) pulse sequence has shown to be of great interest due to its high signal‐to‐noise ratio efficiency. However, bSSFP images often suffer from banding artifacts due to off‐resonance effects, which we aim to minimize in this article.

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