We present a method of multislice magnetic resonance imaging that utilizes simultaneous binary-encoded excitation. Signals are acquired from all slices at once, and the images are separated in the reconstruction process. This simultaneous multislice acquisition method has been implemented for multislice spin-echo imaging, and the results are compared with those for a standard interleaved multislice method. Advantages include improved signal-to-noise ratios and flexible slice placement. Phantom and volunteer studies are presented and evaluated in comparison with competing methods.
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Souza et al. (1988) studied this question.