VERSE-guided numerical RF pulse design: A fast method for peak RF power control

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 353-362

  Lee, Daeho ^a   Grissom, William A ^b   Lustig, Michael ^c   Kerr, Adam B ^a   Stang, Pascal P ^a   Pauly, John M ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

multidimensional; numerical RF pulse design; parallel; peak RF power; RF excitation; VERSE

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; NUMERICAL METHODS; POWER CONTROL;

MULTIDIMENSIONAL; PARALLEL; RF EXCITATION; RF PULSE DESIGNS; RF-POWER; VERSE;

PULSE SHAPING;

ARTICLE; COST; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXCITATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POWER ANALYSIS; POWER SUPPLY; PULSED RADIOFREQUENCY TREATMENT; VARIABLE RATE SELECTIVE EXCITATION; VELOCITY; WAVEFORM;

EID: 84856217350     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.23010     Document Type: Article

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