Exact solution of the CPMG pulse sequence with phase variation down the echo train: Application to R2 measurements

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 183-194

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

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bloch equations; CPMG experiments; Fitting models; Lagrange interpolation; Measurements of transverse relaxations; Phase alternation; Phase cycling scheme; Projection operators; Rectangular pulses

Indexed keywords

BLOCH EQUATION; CPMG EXPERIMENTS; FITTING MODELS; LAGRANGE INTERPOLATION; PHASE ALTERNATION; PHASE CYCLING SCHEME; PROJECTION OPERATORS; RECTANGULAR PULSE;

ALGEBRA; DECAY (ORGANIC); ERRORS; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; INTERPOLATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL ENCODING; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

EXPERIMENTS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR;

EID: 79953232635     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2011.01.009     Document Type: Article

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