Multi-Band Accelerated Pulse Sequences Gallery

Multi-banded RF pulses can be used to accelerate volume coverage along the slice direction by simultaneously exciting and acquiring multiple slices and subsequently unaliasing them using parallel imaging principles and the spatial information available in multi-channel RF array coils.

This allows for a direct reduction in the volume TR by the number of simultaneously excited slices (i.e., the multiband (MB) factor or the slice acceleration factor).