Designing optimal universal pulses using second-order, large-scale, non-linear optimization

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 219, Issue , 2012, Pages 61-74

  Anand, Christopher Kumar ^a   Bain, Alex D ^a   Curtis, Andrew Thomas ^b   Nie, Zhenghua ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

CPMG experiments; Nonlinear second order optimization; Optimal broadband universal rotation pulses; R2 estimation; RF inhomogeneity

Indexed keywords

BLOCH EQUATION; CALCULATION TIME; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; DELAY TIME; DESIGN METHOD; FIRST DERIVATIVE; FIRST-ORDER; GENERIC OPTIMIZATION; INHOMOGENEITIES; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION; PULSE SEQUENCE; QUASI-NEWTON; RF PULSE; RF-INHOMOGENEITY; SECOND DERIVATIVES; SECOND ORDERS; UNIVERSAL PULSE; UNIVERSAL ROTATIONS;

DESIGN; EXPERIMENTS;

OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84861610553     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2012.04.004     Document Type: Article

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