Multisection magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging is a widely used pulse sequence that has distinct advantages over other\r\nspectroscopic imaging sequences, such as dynamic shimming, large region-of-interest coverage within slices, and rapid data\r\nacquisition. It has limitations, however, in the number of slices that can be acquired in realistic scan times and information loss\r\nfrom spacing between slices. In this paper, we synergize themulti-section spectroscopic imaging pulse sequence withmultichannel\r\ncoil technology to overcome these limitations. These combined techniques now permit elimination of the gaps between slices and\r\nacquisition of a larger number of slices to realize the whole brain metabolite mapping without incurring the penalties of longer\r\nrepetition times (and therefore longer acquisition times) or lower signal-to-noise ratios.
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