Composite RF pulses for B1+-insensitive volume excitation at 7 Tesla

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 50-62

  Moore, Jay ^a   Jankiewicz, Marcin ^a   Zeng, Huairen ^a   Anderson, Adam W ^a,b   Gore, John C ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BIR 4; Composite radiofrequency pulses; RF field inhomogeneity; Ultra high field human imaging

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE POWER; BIR-4; COIL CONFIGURATIONS; FIELD STRENGTHS; FREQUENCY OFFSETS; HUMAN BRAIN; INHOMOGENEITIES; NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATIONS; OFF-RESONANCE; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; PULSE DESIGN; RADIO-FREQUENCY PULSE; RF FIELDS; RF PULSE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBJECT-SPECIFIC; ULTRA-HIGH;

FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; RADIOFREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY; RESONANCE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIO WAVES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77956642211     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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