Tailoring the optimal control cost function to a desired output: Application to minimizing phase errors in short broadband excitation pulses

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-23

  Skinner, Thomas E ^a   Reiss, Timo O ^b   Luy, Burkhard ^b   Khaneja, Navin ^c   Glaser, Steffen J ^b  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BEBOP; Broadband excitation; Optimal control theory

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCIES; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MAGNETIZATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE MODULATION; VECTORS;

ANGULAR FREQUENCY; BROADBAND EXCITATION BY OPTIMIZED PULSES (BEBOP); OPTIMAL CONTROL THEORY; VECTOR BLOCH EQUATION;

OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYSTEMS THEORY;

ALGORITHMS; FEEDBACK; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIO WAVES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SYSTEMS THEORY;

EID: 10444220857     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2004.09.011     Document Type: Article

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