Fast slice-selective radio-frequency excitation pulses for mitigating B1+ inhomogeneity in the human brain at 7 Tesla

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1355-1364

  Zelinski, Adam C ^a,d   Wald, Lawrence L ^b,c   Setsompop, Kawin ^a   Alagappan, Vijayanand ^b   Gagoski, Borjan A ^a   Goyal, Vivek K ^a   Adalsteinsson, Elfar ^a,c  

^a USA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D RF excitation; B1+ inhomogeneity mitigation; High field; In vivo; RF pulse design; Sparse approximation

Indexed keywords

RADIO WAVES;

HIGH FIELD; IN-VIVO; INHOMOGENEITIES; RF EXCITATION; RF PULSE DESIGNS; SPARSE APPROXIMATIONS;

BRAIN;

WATER;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN SLICE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHANTOM; RADIOFREQUENCY;

EID: 44949168636     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21585     Document Type: Article

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