Magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy methods

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ABSTRACT:
Several magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods using adiabatic excitation are disclosed. One method accomplishes slice selection with gradient modulated adiabatic excitation. Another method employs slice selection with adiabatic excitation despite large variations in B.sub.1 magnitude. There is also described .sup.1 H spectroscopy using solvent suppressive adiabatic pulses.

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