Transmit and receive RF fields determination from a single low-tip-angle gradient-echo scan by scaling of SVD data

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 248-259

  Sbrizzi, Alessandro ^a   Raaijmakers, Alexander J E ^a   Hoogduin, Hans ^a,b   Lagendijk, Jan J W ^a   Luijten, Peter R ^a   Van Den Berg, Cornelis A T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

parallel imaging; receive fields; shimming; transmit fields; TRIPLET

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

PARALLEL IMAGING; RECEIVE FIELDS; SHIMMING; TRANSMIT FIELDS; TRIPLET;

SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

ABDOMEN; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HEAD; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DEVICES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PROCEDURES; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; TIME FACTOR;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIO WAVES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84902545040     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24912     Document Type: Article

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