Tailored sinc pulses for uniform excitation and artifact-free radio frequency time-domain EPR imaging

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 110-117

  Devasahayam, N ^a   Murugesan, R ^a,b   Matsumoto, K ^a   Mitchell, J B ^a   Cook, J A ^a   Subramanian, S ^a   Krishna, M C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIZATION; RESONATORS; SPECTROMETERS;

RADIO FREQUENCY; TAILOR SINC PULSES; WAVEFORM GENERATORS;

PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; C3H MOUSE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 1842682303     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2004.01.016     Document Type: Article

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