Exact solution to the Bloch equations and application to the Hahn echo

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 206, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 227-240

  Bain, Alex D ^a   Anand, Christopher Kumar ^a   Nie, Zhenghua ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bloch Equations; Fitting models; Hahn Echo; Lagrange interpolation; Measurements of transverse relaxations; Projection operators; Rectangular pulses

Indexed keywords

BLOCH EQUATION; FITTING MODEL; HAHN ECHO; LAGRANGE INTERPOLATIONS; PROJECTION OPERATOR; RECTANGULAR PULSE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; INTERPOLATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 79953165442     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2010.07.012     Document Type: Article

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