Robust spatially selective excitation using radiofrequency pulses adapted to the effective spatially encoding magnetic fields

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 409-421

  Schneider, Johannes T ^a,b   Haas, Martin ^b   Ruhm, Wolfgang ^a   Hennig, Jürgen ^b   Ullmann, Peter ^a  

^a BRUKER BIOSPIN GMBH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

gradient system imperfections; k space trajectory; parallel excitation; spatially selective excitation

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SPACE FLIGHT;

EXCITATION PATTERN; EXPERIMENTAL IMPERFECTIONS; GRADIENT SYSTEMS; K-SPACE TRAJECTORIES; PARALLEL EXCITATION; RADIO-FREQUENCY PULSE; SELECTIVE EXCITATIONS; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIZATION;

SIGNAL ENCODING;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOFREQUENCY PULSE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SPATIALLY ENCODING MAGNETIC FIELD; SPATIALLY SELECTIVE EXCITATION;

EID: 79251563181     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22635     Document Type: Article

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