Tailored excitation using nonlinear B0-shims

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 601-608

  Duan, Qi ^a   Van Gelderen, Peter ^a   Duyn, Jeff ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

flip angle; high field MRI; transmit sense; wavelength effects

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FLIP ANGLE; HIGH FIELD MRI; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; PARALLEL EXCITATION; SPATIAL DEPENDENCE; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TRANSMIT SENSE; WAVELENGTH EFFECTS;

SHIMS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; HUMAN; MAGNETIC FIELD; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 84857243554     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.23278     Document Type: Article

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