A low power radiofrequency pulse for simultaneous multislice excitation and refocusing

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 949-958

  Eichner, Cornelius ^a,b   Wald, Lawrence L ^a   Setsompop, Kawin ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blipped CAIPI; Multiband; PINS; RF pulse design; SMS

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SAMARIUM;

BLIPPED CAIPI; ENERGY TRANSMISSION; EXCITATION CHARACTERISTICS; MULTIBAND; PINS; RADIO-FREQUENCY PULSE; REDUCED BANDWIDTHS; RF PULSE DESIGNS;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; ENERGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOFREQUENCY PULSE; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; SIMULTANEOUS MULTISLICE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; WHOLE BODY SCANNER; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ENERGY TRANSFER; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; PROCEDURES; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

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

EID: 84927694035     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25389     Document Type: Article

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