Designer RF field profiles for parallel imaging applications

Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part B: Magnetic Resonance Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 75-85

  Willig Onwuachi, J D ^a   Eagan, T P ^b   Shvartsman, Sh M ^b,c   Brown, R W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical solutions; Parallel imaging; RF coils; SENSE; SMASH; Target field methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 30744455467     PISSN: 15525031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cmr.b.20047     Document Type: Article

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