Constrained image‐based B0 shimming accounting for “local minimum traps” in the optimization and field inhomogeneities outside the region of interest

To improve B0 shimming for applications in high‐ and ultrahigh‐field magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

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