Low peak power multiband spokes pulses for B1+ inhomogeneity-compensated simultaneous multislice excitation in high field MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 747-755

  Sharma, Anuj ^a,b   Bammer, Roland ^c   Stenger, V Andrew ^d   Grissom, William A ^a,b,e  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

multiband pulses; optimization; parallel transmit; spokes pulses

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION;

FIELD INHOMOGENEITY; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; LOCAL OPTIMIZATIONS; MULTIBAND; PARALLEL TRANSMIT; RADIO-FREQUENCY POWER; RADIO-FREQUENCY PULSE; SPOKES PULSES;

BRAIN MAPPING;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; LEARNING ALGORITHM; LOW PEAK POWER PULSE; LOWER FLIP ANGLE INHOMOGENEITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; ALGORITHM; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIO WAVES;

EID: 84939507338     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25455     Document Type: Article

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