Time efficient design of multi dimensional RF pulses: Application of a multi shift CGLS algorithm

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 879-885

  Sbrizzi, Alessandro ^a   Hoogduin, Hans ^a   Lagendijk, Jan J ^a   Luijten, Peter ^a   Sleijpen, Gerard L G ^b   Van Den Berg, Cornelis A T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

L curve; multi shift CGLS; RF pulse design; Tikhonov regularization

Indexed keywords

PARAMETERIZATION;

L-CURVE; LEAST SQUARES PROBLEMS; MULTI DIMENSIONAL; MULTI-SHIFT CGLS; OPTIMAL REGULARIZATION; RATIO FREQUENCIES; RF PULSE DESIGNS; TIKHONOV REGULARIZATION;

CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONJUGATE GRADIENT FOR LEAST SQUARE ALGORITHM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLOTS AND CURVES; RATIO FREQUENCY PULSE; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE; TIKHONOV REGULARIZATION; WORKFLOW;

EID: 80051700453     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22863     Document Type: Article

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