Exploring the limits of broadband excitation and inversion pulses

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 236-243

  Kobzar, Kyryl ^a   Skinner, Thomas E ^b   Khaneja, Navin ^c   Glaser, Steffen J ^a   Luy, Burkhard ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BEBOP; BIBOP; Broadband excitation; Broadband inversion; Optimal control theory

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL THEORY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTERPOLATION; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIALS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; QUANTUM THEORY;

BEBOP; BIBOP; BROADBAND EXCITATION; BROADBAND INVERSION; OPTIMAL CONTROL THEORY;

NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 4544227570     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2004.06.017     Document Type: Article

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