Fast design of local N-gram-specific absorption rate-optimized radiofrequency pulses for parallel transmit systems

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 824-834

  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

local SAR reduction; multidimensional RF pulse design; parallel transmission; transmit array; ultra high field MRI

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATE GRADIENT ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL TRANSMISSION; RF PULSE DESIGNS; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DOMAIN; TRANSMIT ARRAYS; TRANSVERSE ELECTROMAGNETIC; ULTRA-HIGH FIELD MRIS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONJUGATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEATING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOFREQUENCY;

EID: 84857366167     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.23049     Document Type: Article

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