Small-tip-angle spokes pulse design using interleaved greedy and local optimization methods

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1553-1562

  Grissom, William A ^a   Khalighi, Mohammad Mehdi ^b   Sacolick, Laura I ^a   Rutt, Brian K ^c   Vogel, Mika W ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

parallel excitation; pulse design; selective excitation; Spokes pulse design; three dimensional RF pulses

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; GRADIENT METHODS; LOCATION; OPTIMIZATION;

LOCAL OPTIMIZATION METHODS; PARALLEL EXCITATION; PULSE DESIGN; RADIO-FREQUENCY PULSE; RF PULSE; SELECTIVE EXCITATIONS; SPARSE APPROXIMATIONS; SPATIAL FREQUENCY;

DESIGN;

ARTICLE; EXPERIMENT; LOCAL OPTIMIZATION METHOD; PROCEDURES; PROCESS DESIGN; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIMULATION; SPOKES PULSE DESIGN;

EID: 84867868705     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24165     Document Type: Article

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