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Broadband excitation in magnetic resonance by self-refocusing doubly frequency-modulated pulses

Geoffrey Bodenhausen
1993
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It is shown how transverse magnetization can be excited with a single low-power radiofrequency pulse consisting of a superposition of 2 frequency-modulated components. The phase dispersion obtained with this self-refocusing pulse is very small over bandwidths that are far greater than the amplitude of the radiofrequency field. The new pulse shape may be derived from spin-echo sequences employing frequency-modulated chirp pulses by shifting the excitation and refocusing pulses in time so that they are partly or completely superimposed. The duration of chirp spin-echo sequences can be reduced by a factor of 2 by this contraction process, so that the echoes are less sensitive to transverse relaxation. [on SciFinder (R)]

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Geoffrey Bodenhausen
1993
Journal Articles

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/21a021b8-dc20-4dcf-9624-8e4a481aaf5b

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