Fast large-tip-angle multidimensional and parallel RF pulse design in MRI

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1548-1559

  Grissom, William A ^a   Xu, Dan ^b   Kerr, Adam B ^b   Fessler, Jeffrey A ^c   Noll, Douglas C ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Large tip angle RF pulse design; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Multidimensional excitation; Parallel excitation; RF pulse design

Indexed keywords

BLOCH EQUATION; DESIGN TIME; FIELD PATTERNS; INHOMOGENETIES; LARGE-TIP-ANGLE RF PULSE DESIGN; LINEAR MODEL; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; MULTIDIMENSIONAL EXCITATION; NON-IDEALITIES; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; NON-UNIFORM FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; OPTIMAL CONTROL METHODS; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; PARALLEL EXCITATION; PULSE DESIGN; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RF PULSE; RF PULSE DESIGN;

FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

DESIGN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIO WAVES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 70349880819     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2020064     Document Type: Article

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