Fast Broadband Inversion by Adiabatic Pulses

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 200-203

  Hwang, Tsang Lin ^a   Van Zijl, Peter C M ^a   Garwood, Michael ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic pulses; Fast broadband inversion; Tangential frequency sweep

Indexed keywords

CARBON; HYDROGEN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ROTATION;

ALGORITHMS; CARBON ISOTOPES; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROGEN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ROTATION;

EID: 0032113626     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmre.1998.1441     Document Type: Editorial

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