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On self‐refocusing pulses for rapid gradient‐echo imaging
Author(s) -
McKin G. C.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
magnetic resonance in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.696
H-Index - 225
eISSN - 1522-2594
pISSN - 0740-3194
DOI - 10.1002/mrm.1910290217
Subject(s) - echo (communications protocol) , gradient echo , radio frequency , nuclear magnetic resonance , computer science , power (physics) , physics , magnetic resonance imaging , telecommunications , medicine , radiology , computer network , quantum mechanics
Self‐refocusing slice selective radio frequency pulses could potentially be used to reduce imaging times in rapid gradient‐echo sequences. However, in practice, the improvement is likely to be no greater than about 20%, and at the expense of much increased radio frequency power requirements.