Root-flipped multiband refocusing pulses

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 227-237

  Sharma, Anuj ^a,b   Lustig, Michael ^c   Grissom, William A ^a,b,d  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiband; RF pulse design; Root Flipping; Selective Excitation; Shinnar Le Roux

Indexed keywords

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; PHASE MATCHING;

MULTIBAND; RF PULSE DESIGNS; ROOT-FLIPPING; SELECTIVE EXCITATIONS; SHINNAR-LE ROUX;

SPIN POLARIZATION;

ALGORITHM; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; IMAGING PHANTOM; IN VIVO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL PROCEDURES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHASE MATCHED EXCITATION PULSE; PROCESS DESIGN; RADIOFREQUENCY; ROOT FLIPPED MULTIBAND REFOCUSING RADIOFREQUENCY PULSE; ROOT FLIPPING; SHINNAR LE ROUX ALGORITHM; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIMULATION; SIMULTANEOUS MULTISLICE SPIN ECHO MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TIME SHIFTED PULSE; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DEVICES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PROCEDURES; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIO WAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84923914330     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25629     Document Type: Article

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