An approach to Hadamard phase encoding and editing in an excitation sculpti
ng experiment is presented. When band- and/or frequency-selective experimen
ts are performed at more than one site using excitation sculpting, use of H
adamard excitation sculpting (HEX sculpting) will reduce the total measurin
g time to achieve a target S/N. The application of HEX sculpting is demonst
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