Single-shot, variable flip-angle slice-selective excitation with four gradient-modulated adiabatic half-passage segments

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 334-340

  Hsu, Edward W ^a,c   Reeder, Scott B ^b   MacFall, James R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic pulses; Gradient modulated selective excitation; Single shot

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC PULSE; B1 FIELD; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FLIP ANGLE; NMR-IMAGING; SELECTIVE EXCITATIONS; SINGLE SHOTS; SLICE-SELECTIVE EXCITATIONS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXCITATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TISSUE SLICE; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0031858555     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910400220     Document Type: Article

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