Simultaneous multislice multiband parallel radiofrequency excitation with independent slice-specific transmit B1 homogenization

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 630-638

  Wu, Xiaoping ^a   Schmitter, Sebastian ^a   Auerbach, Edward J ^a   Moeller, Steen ^a   Uǧurbil, Kâmil ^a   Van De Moortele, Pierre François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

high field MRI; parallel excitation; RF pulse design; simultaneous multislice; transmit B1 homogenization

Indexed keywords

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; HIGH FIELD MRI; MULTI SLICES; PARALLEL EXCITATION; RADIO FREQUENCY POWER; RADIOFREQUENCY EXCITATIONS; RF PULSE DESIGNS; ULTRA-HIGH FIELD MRIS;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIMULATION; SIMULTANEOUS MULTIBAND RADIOFREQUENCY EXCITATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BRAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 84883240839     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24828     Document Type: Article

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