Geometric optimal control of the contrast imaging problem in nuclear magnetic resonance

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1957-1969

  Bonnard, Bernard ^a   Cots, Olivier ^a   Glaser, Steffen J ^b   Lapert, Marc ^c   Sugny, Dominique ^c   Zhang, Yun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Geometric optimal control; nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR); quantum control

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST IMAGING; EXTREMAL SOLUTIONS; GEOMETRIC OPTIMAL CONTROL; HAMILTONIAN DYNAMICS; OPTIMAL PROBLEMS; OPTIMAL TRAJECTORIES; OPTIMALITY; QUANTUM CONTROL; TRANSFER TIME;

CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION;

NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

EID: 84864762328     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2012.2195859     Document Type: Article

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