Application of PINS radiofrequency pulses to reduce power deposition in RARE/turbo spin echo imaging of the human head

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 44-49

  Norris, David G ^a,b,c   Boyacioǧlu, Rasim ^b   Schulz, Jenni ^b   Barth, Markus ^a,b   Koopmans, Peter J ^a,b,d  

^a ERWIN L HAHN INSTITUTE FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

7 Tesla; multiband imaging; PINS; radiofrequency pulses; RARE FSE TSE; RF power deposition

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MAPPING; DEPOSITION; RADAR IMAGING; SPIN POLARIZATION;

7 TESLAS; MULTIBAND; PINS; RADIO-FREQUENCY PULSE; RARE/FSE/TSE; RF-POWER;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PINS RADIOFREQUENCY PULSE; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RARE IMAGING; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; STANDARD;

7 TESLA; MULTIBAND IMAGING; PINS; RADIOFREQUENCY PULSES; RARE/FSE/TSE; RF POWER DEPOSITION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84890799962     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24991     Document Type: Article

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