Design of parallel transmission pulses for simultaneous multislice with explicit control for peak power and local specific absorption rate

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1946-1953

  Guérin, Bastien ^a   Setsompop, Kawin ^a   Ye, Huihui ^a,b   Poser, Benedikt A ^c,d   Stenger, Andrew V ^d   Wald, Lawrence L ^a,e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

low flip angle; multiband; parallel transmission; pulse design; simultaneous multislice; specific absorption rate

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; TRANSMISSIONS;

FLIP ANGLE; MULTI SLICES; MULTIBAND; PARALLEL TRANSMISSION; PULSE DESIGN; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE;

POWER CONTROL;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EXCITATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMPEDANCE; NEUROIMAGING; PULSE RATE; SIMULATION; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DEVICES; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING PHANTOM; LEAST SQUARE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84928062157     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25325     Document Type: Article

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