Fast radiofrequency flip angle calibration by Bloch-Siegert shift

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1333-1338

  Sacolick, Laura I ^a   Sun, Ling ^b   Vogel, Mika W ^a   Dixon, W Thomas ^c   Hancu, Ileana ^c  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bloch Siegert shift; flip angle; off resonance; RF calibration; transmit gain

Indexed keywords

RESONANCE;

BLOCH-SIEGERT SHIFT; FLIP ANGLE; OFF-RESONANCE; RF CALIBRATION; TRANSMIT GAIN;

CALIBRATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 80054803017     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22902     Document Type: Article

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