Application of PINS radiofrequency pulses to reduce power deposition in RARE/turbo spin echo imaging of the human head

To explore the use of PINS radiofrequency (RF) pulses to reduce RF power deposition in multiband/simultaneous multislice imaging with the RARE/turbo spin echo (TSE) sequence at 3T and 7T.

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