A Near-Resonance Solution to the Bloch Equations and Its Application to RF Pulse Design

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 225-231

  Xu, Zhihua ^a   Chan, Andrew K ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bloch equations; RF pulse design; Wavelet encoding

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009613530     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmre.1999.1732     Document Type: Article

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