Accelerated multidimensional radiofrequency pulse design for parallel transmission using concurrent computation on multiple graphics processing units

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 363-369

  Deng, Weiran ^a   Yang, Cungeng ^a   Stenger, V Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

graphics processing unit; multi dimensional RF pulse; parallel transmission

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; TRANSMISSIONS; TRANSMITTERS;

ACCELERATION FACTORS; COMPUTATION TIME; COMPUTING PROCESSORS; CONCURRENT COMPUTATION; PARALLEL TRANSMISSION; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RADIO-FREQUENCY PULSE; RF PULSE;

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; EXCITATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RADIOFREQUENCY;

EID: 79251567096     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22690     Document Type: Article

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