New strategies for designing robust universal rotation pulses: Application to broadband refocusing at low power

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 216, Issue , 2012, Pages 78-87

  Skinner, Thomas E ^a   Gershenzon, Naum I ^a   Nimbalkar, Manoj ^b   Bermel, Wolfgang ^c   Luy, Burkhard ^d   Glaser, Steffen J ^b  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c BRUKER BIOSPIN GMBH   (Germany)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

BURBOP; Optimal control theory; Refocusing pulses; S BURBOP; Universal rotation pulses; UR pulses

Indexed keywords

BURBOP; OPTIMAL CONTROL THEORY; REFOCUSING PULSES; S-BURBOP; UNIVERSAL ROTATIONS; UR PULSES;

ALGORITHMS; CONTROL; ERRORS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPTIMIZATION; PROBES; ROTATION;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 84858337785     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2012.01.005     Document Type: Article

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