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Pulsed magnetization transfer versus continuous wave irradiation for tissue contrast enhancement
Author(s) -
Schneider Erika,
Prost Robert W.,
Glover Gary H.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of magnetic resonance imaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.563
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1522-2586
pISSN - 1053-1807
DOI - 10.1002/jmri.1880030218
Subject(s) - magnetization transfer , continuous wave , materials science , irradiation , saturation (graph theory) , pulse (music) , nuclear magnetic resonance , contrast (vision) , radio frequency , magnetization , magnetic resonance imaging , optics , physics , magnetic field , telecommunications , computer science , mathematics , medicine , nuclear physics , laser , radiology , combinatorics , quantum mechanics , detector
Pulsed magnetization transfer and continuous wave irradiation techniques are analyzed and compared for saturation efficiency and radio‐frequency (RF) power requirements at 1.5 and 0.5 T. Binomial RF pulses transmitted on resonance are a more power‐efficient method of exciting saturation transfer and are easily implemented with any pulse sequence. Binomial pulses selectively excite all short T2 species and behave as 0° pulses for on‐resonance, long T2 species.