On the use of a slice-selective 270° self-refocusing Gaussian pulse for magnetic resonance imaging: Comments on the note by D. M. Doddrell et al.

On the use of a slice-selective 270° sel

On the use of a slice-selective 270° self-refocusing Gaussian pulse for magnetic resonance imaging

✍ David M. Doddrell; Graham J. Galloway; Stephen E. Rose; Peter J. Moulds; Ian M. 📂 Article 📅 1991 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 254 KB 👁 1 views

Theoretical and experimental results are presented demonstrating that the slice intensity resulting from a self-refocusing 270" Gaussian pulse (L. Elmsley and G. Bodenhausen, Magn. Reson. in Med. 10, 273, 1989) is approximately 60% of that following an appropriately refocused 90" GaUSSian pulse.