Robust reconstruction of B1+ maps by projection into a spherical functions space

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 394-401

  Sbrizzi, Alessandro ^a   Hoogduin, Hans ^a,b   Lagendijk, Jan J ^a   Luijten, Peter ^a   Van Den Berg, Cornelis A T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Helmholtz equation; parallel transmit; radiofrequency field mapping; spherical harmonics

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; MAPPING; SPHERES;

IN-VIVO MEASUREMENT; MODEL BASED RECONSTRUCTION; PARALLEL TRANSMIT; RADIO-FREQUENCY FIELDS; ROBUST RECONSTRUCTION; SPHERICAL COORDINATE SYSTEMS; SPHERICAL FUNCTIONS; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEASUREMENT; NOISE REDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERMEABILITY; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; ANIMAL; ARTIFACT; B1+ MAPPING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PARALLEL TRANSMIT; RADIOFREQUENCY FIELD MAPPING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

B1+ MAPPING; HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; PARALLEL TRANSMIT; RADIOFREQUENCY FIELD MAPPING; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84890795742     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24640     Document Type: Article

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