Velocity sensitivity of slice-selective excitation

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 907-916

  Lewis, David P ^a   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^a,b   Moran, Paul R ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow; Radiofrequency (RF) pulse; Selective excitation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATION; FLOW RATE; LAMINAR FLOW; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIO WAVES;

EID: 0031737749     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(98)00097-6     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Nishimura, D.G.; Macovski, A.; Pauly, J.M.; Conolly, S.M. MR Angiography by selective inversion recovery. Magn. Reson. Med. 4:193-202; 1987.
2. Saloner, D.; Anderson, C. Flow velocity quantitation using inversion tagging. Magn. Reson. Med. 16:269-279; 1990.
3. Kim, S.G. Quantification of relative cerebral blood flow change by flow-sensitive alternating inversion recovery (FAIR) technique: Application to functional mapping. Magn. Reson. Med. 34:293-301; 1995.
4. Helpern, J.A.; Branch, C.A.; Yongbi, M.; Huang, N. Perfusion imaging by un-inverted flow-sensitive alternating inversion recovery (UNFAIR). Magn. Reson. Imaging 15: 135-139; 1997.
5. Lurie, D.J. A Systematic design procedure for selective pulses in NMR imaging. Magn. Reson. Imaging 3:235-243; 1985.
6. Conolly, S.; Nishimura, D.; Macovski, A. Optimal control solutions to the magnetic resonance selective excitation problem. IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging MI-5:106-115; 1986.
7. Mao, J.; Mareci, T.H.; Scott, K N.; Andrew, E.R. Selective inversion radiofrequency pulses by optimal control theory. J. Magn. Reson. 70:310-318; 1986.
8. Murdoch, J.B.; Lent, A.H.; Kritzer, M.R. Computer-optimized narrowband pulses for multislice imaging. J. Magn. Reson. 74:226-263; 1987.
9. Ngo, J.T.; Morris, P.G. General solution to the NMR excitation problem for noninteracting spins. Magn. Reson. Med. 5:217-237; 1987.
10. LeRoux, P. Exact synthesis of radiofrequency waveforms. In: Book of Abstracts: Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Vol. 2. Berkeley, CA: SMRM; 1988:1049.
11. Shinnar, M.; Bolinger, L.; Leigh, J.S. The synthesis of soft pulses with a specified frequency response. Magn. Reson. Med. 12:88-92; 1989.
12. Pauly, J.; Le Roux, P.; Nishimura, D.; Macovski, A. Parameter relations for the Shinnar-Le Roux selective excitation pulse design algorithm. IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 10:53-65; 1991.
13. Geen, H.; Freeman, R. Band-selective radiofrequency pulses. J. Magn. Reson. 93:93-141; 1991.
14. Gullberg, G.T.; Simons, M.A.; Wehrli, F.W. A Mathematical model for signal from spins flowing during the application of spin echo pulse sequences. Magn. Reson. Imaging 6:437-61; 1988.
15. Saloner, D. Intensity dependence of flow signal in slice selective velocity measurements. Magn. Reson. Imaging 7:61-67; 1989.
16. Gao, J.H.; Gore, J.C.A. Numerical investigation of the dependence of NMR signal from pulsatile blood flow in CINE pulse sequences. Med. Phys. 18:342-9; 1991.
17. Gao, J.H.; Gore, J.C. Effects of slow flow on slice profile and NMR signal in fast imaging sequences. Phys. Med. Biol. 39:1489-1500; 1994.
18. Yuan, C.; Gullberg, G.T.; Parker, D.L. The solution of Bloch equations for flowing spins during a selective pulse using a finite difference method. Med. Phys. 14:914-921; 1987.
19. Yuan, C.; Gullberg, G.T.; Parker, D.L. Flow-induced phase effects; and compensation technique for slice-selective pulses. Magn. Reson. Med. 9:161-176; 1989.
20. Altobelli, S.A. Simulation of spin motion during amplitude and phase modulated RF excitation. In: Book of Abstracts: Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Vol. 2. Berkeley, CA: SMRM;1988: 1047.
21. Aaron, R.; Shiffman, C.A. Line and slice selection for moving spins. Med. Phys. 17:847-854; 1990.
22. Lewis, D.P.; Tsui, B.M.W.; Moran, P.R.; Saloner, D. Flow compensation by RF phase modulation. In: Book of Abstracts: Ninth Annual Meeting of the Society for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Vol. 1. New York: SMRI: 1991: 236.
23. Bernstein, M.; Mazin, B.; LeRoux, P. Tool for SLR pulse design. Initial experience. In: Book of Abstracts: Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Vol. 3. Berkeley, CA: SMRM; 1993: 1180.
24. Morris, P.G.; McIntyre, D.J.; Rourke, D.E.; Ngo, J.T. The design of practical selective pulses for magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy using SPINCALC. Magn. Reson. Med. 17:33-40; 1991.
25. McKinnon, G.G. On self-refocusing pulses for rapid gradient-echo imaging. Magn. Reson. Med. 29:260-262; 1993.
26. Chan, F.; Pauly, J.M.; Macovski, A. Effects of RF amplifier distortion on selective excitation and their correction by prewarping. Magn. Reson. Med. 23:224-238; 1992.
27. Lewis, D.P. Slice selective excitation of stationary and flowing material in MRI. Ph.D. Dissertation. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; 1997.
28. Conolly, S.; Nishimura, D.; Macovski, A.; Glover, G. Variable-rate selective excitation. J. Magn. Reson. 78: 440-458; 1988.