Radiofrequency pulse design for the selective excitation of dissolved 129Xe

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 21-30

  Leung, General ^a   Norquay, Graham ^a   Schulte, Rolf F ^b   Wild, Jim M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Composite pulse; Dissolved xenon; Hyperpolarized; Lung; Selective excitation

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY RESPONSE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUMERICAL METHODS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SCANNING; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

AMPLITUDE DISTORTIONS; BINOMIAL COEFFICIENTS; COMPOSITE PULSE; HYPERPOLARIZED; LUNG; RADIO-FREQUENCY PULSE; SELECTIVE EXCITATIONS; SHORT DURATION PULSE;

DISSOLUTION;

RADIOISOTOPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XENON 129; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; XENON;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; EXCITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IN VIVO STUDY; INHALATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOFREQUENCY PULSE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUNG; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; RADIO WAVES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLUTIONS; XENON ISOTOPES;

EID: 84919872351     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25089     Document Type: Article

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