Adiabatic rf pulses: Applications to in vivo NMR

Concepts in Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 247-268

  De Graaf, Robin A ^a,b   Nicolay, Klaas ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Adiabatic condition; Adiabatic pulses; Amplitude and frequency modulation; B1 insensitive rotation; Frequency offset; Frequency selection; Plane rotation; rf inhomogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031287112     PISSN: 10437347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0534(1997)9:4<247::aid-cmr4>3.3.co;2-a     Document Type: Article

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