Spectroscopic imaging with volume selection by unpaired adiabatic π pulses: Theory and application

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-12

  Valette, Julien ^a   Park, Jang Yeon ^a   Gröhn, Olli ^a   Uǧurbil, Kamil ^a   Garwood, Michael ^a   Henry, Pierre Gilles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic pulse; Non linear phase; Reconstruction; Spatial response function; Spectroscopic imaging

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ENERGY DISSIPATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

ADIABATIC PULSE; NON-LINEAR PHASE; SPATIAL RESPONSE FUNCTION; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING;

NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; RAT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; RATS;

RATTUS;

EID: 35648998390     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2007.08.013     Document Type: Article

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