Designing adiabatic radio frequency pulses using the Shinnar-Le Roux algorithm

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 843-851

  Balchandani, Priti ^a   Pauly, John ^b   Spielman, Daniel ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic; Algorithm; Bandwidth; Quadratic phase; RF pulse; Shinnar Le Roux

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIO WAVES;

ADIABATIC; ADIABATIC CONDITIONS; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; QUADRATIC PHASE; RADIO FREQUENCY PULSE; RF PULSE; SHINNAR-LE ROUX; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS;

DESIGN;

ADIABATICITY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ENERGY; PHANTOM; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SHINNAR LE ROUX ALGORITHM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION;

EID: 77956356325     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22473     Document Type: Article

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