Equi-ripple design of quadratic-phase RF pulses

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 111-122

  Schulte, Rolf F ^a   Tsao, Jeffrey ^a   Boesiger, Peter ^a   Pruessmann, Klaas P ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Broad bandwidth; Frequency modulation; Quadratic phase pulses; Shinnar Le Roux transformation; Very selective saturation pulses

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIR FILTERS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IMPULSE RESPONSE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

CHEMICAL SHIFTS; QUADRATIC PHASE PULSES;

RADIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS;

ABIES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SAMPLE SIZE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIO WAVES; SAMPLE SIZE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0346331285     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2003.10.009     Document Type: Article

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