Slice-selective RF pulses for in vivo B1+ inhomogeneity mitigation at 7 Tesla using parallel RF excitation with a 16-element coil

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1422-1432

  Setsompop, Kawin ^a,f   Alagappan, Vijayanand ^b   Gagoski, Borjan ^a   Witzel, Thomas ^b,c   Polimeni, Jonathan ^b   Potthast, Andreas ^d   Hebrank, Franz ^d   Fontius, Ulrich ^e   Schmitt, Franz ^e   Wald, Lawrence L ^b,c   Adalsteinsson, Elfar ^a,c  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^e SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Multidimensional RF pulse; Parallel excitation; RF coil array; RF inhomogeneity mitigation; Slice selective excitation

Indexed keywords

PARALLEL EXCITATION; RF COIL; RF PULSE; RF-INHOMOGENEITY; SLICE-SELECTIVE EXCITATIONS;

BUTLER MATRIX;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 57149090290     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21739     Document Type: Article

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