Variable slew-rate spiral design: Theory and application to peak B 1 amplitude reduction in 2D RF pulse design

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 835-842

  Xu, Dan ^a,b   King, Kevin F ^b   Liang, Zhi Pei ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

RF pulse design; Slew rate; Spiral; VERSE

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION;

GOVERNING DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; HARDWARE CONSTRAINTS; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; RF PULSE DESIGNS; SLEW RATE; SPIRAL; SPIRAL TRAJECTORIES; VERSE;

TRAJECTORIES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY; THEORY; TIME;

EID: 35048813441     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21375     Document Type: Article

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