Squeezed Trajectory Design for Peak RF and Integrated RF Power Reduction in Parallel Transmission MRI.

High peak RF amplitude and excessive specific absorption rate (SAR) are two critical concerns for hardware implementation and patient safety in scientific and clinical research for high field MRI using parallel transmissions (pTX). In this paper, we introduce a squeezing strategy to reduce peak RF amplitude and integrated RF power via direct reshaping of the k-space trajectory. In the existing pea...