Joint design of spoke trajectories and RF pulses for parallel excitation

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 973-985

  Ma, Chao ^a,c   Xu, Dan ^b   King, Kevin F ^b   Liang, Zhi Pei ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

joint design; parallel excitation; pulse design; sequential selection; spoke trajectory design

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COST FUNCTIONS;

JOINT DESIGNS; PARALLEL EXCITATION; PULSE DESIGN; SEQUENTIAL SELECTION; TRAJECTORY DESIGNS;

TRAJECTORIES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ERROR; EXCITATION; PULSE WAVE; RADIOFREQUENCY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SPOKE TRAJECTORY;

EID: 79952806812     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22676     Document Type: Article

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