Implementation and evaluation of frequency offset corrected inversion (FOCI) pulses on a clinical MR system

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 828-833

  Payne, Geoffrey S ^a,b   Leach, Martin O ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adiabatic pulses; FOCI pulses; Localized MR spectroscopy; Slice inversion

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SHIFT; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

ADIABATIC PULSE; FOCI PULSE; FREQUENCY OFFSETS; GRADIENT WAVEFORMS; HYPERBOLIC SECANT PULSE; MR SPECTROSCOPY; SLICE INVERSION; WAVEFORM DIGITIZATION;

HYPERBOLIC FUNCTIONS;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0030716493     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910380520     Document Type: Article

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