Designing Long-T 2 Suppression Pulses for Ultra-short Echo Time (UTE) Imaging Peder E.Z. Larson 1 , Paul T. Gurney 1 , Krishna Nayak 2 Garry E. Gold 3 , John M. Pauly 1 , Dwight G. Nishimura 1 1 Magnetic Resonance Systems Research Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA 2 Magnetic Resonance Engineering Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Uni- versity of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA 3 Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA Running head: Designing Long-T 2 Suppression Pulses Address correspondence to: Peder Larson Packard Electrical Engineering, Room 208 350 Serra Mall Stanford, CA 94305-9510 TEL: (650) 725-7005 E-MAIL: peder@mrsrl.stanford.edu This work was supported by GE Medical Systems and NIH grant number 1R01-EB002524.