Theoretical and numerical aspects of transmit SENSE

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 520-525

  Katscher, Ulrich ^a   Börnert, Peter ^a   Van den Brink, Johan Samuel ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; VECTORS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ARBITRARILY SHAPED TRANSMIT COILS; MULTIPLE RECEIVE COILS; MULTIPLE TRANSMIT COILS; PARALLEL IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PARALLEL TRANSMISSION; PULSE SHAPING METHODS; SCAN TIME REDUCTION; SPATIALLY SELECTIVE RADIO FREQUENCY PULSES;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 11144358324     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.824151     Document Type: Letter

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