Spatial domain method for the design of RF pulses in multicoil parallel excitation

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 620-629

  Grissom, William ^a   Yip, Chu Yu ^a   Zhang, Zhenghui ^b   Stenger, V Andrew ^c   Fessler, Jeffrey A ^a   Noll, Douglas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Large tip angle excitation; Parallel excitation; Pulse design; Selective excitation; Transmit SENSE

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; SPACE FLIGHT;

PARALLEL EXCITATION; PULSE DESIGN; SELECTIVE EXCITATIONS; TIP ANGLE; TRANSMIT SENSE;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ENERGY; EVALUATION; EXCITATION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PARALLEL EXCITATION; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS MODEL; PULSE GENERATOR; RADIOBIOLOGY; RADIOFREQUENCY; SPATIAL DOMAIN METHOD; TECHNIQUE; VELOCITY;

EID: 33748376498     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20978     Document Type: Article

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