Fast, Fully Automated Global and Local Magnetic Field Optimization for fMRI of the Human Brain

Robust fully automated shimming of the h

Robust fully automated shimming of the human brain for high-field 1H spectroscopic imaging

✍ Hoby P. Hetherington; Wen-Jang Chu; Oded Gonen; Jullie W. Pan 📂 Article 📅 2006 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 580 KB

## Abstract Although a variety of methods have been proposed to provide automated adjustment of shim homogeneity, these methods typically fail or require large numbers of iterations in vivo when applied to regions with poor homogeneity, such as the temporal lobe. These limitations are largely due t