Ultra-high field MRI: parallel-transmit arrays and RF pulse design

SN Williams, P McElhinney… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reviews the field of multiple or parallel radiofrequency (RF) transmission for
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Currently the use of ultra-high field (UHF) MRI at 7 tesla …

B-spline parameterized joint optimization of reconstruction and k-space trajectories (bjork) for accelerated 2d mri

G Wang, T Luo, JF Nielsen, DC Noll… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optimizing k-space sampling trajectories is a promising yet challenging topic for fast
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This work proposes to optimize a reconstruction method …

Automated design of pulse sequences for magnetic resonance fingerprinting using physics-inspired optimization

SP Jordan, S Hu, I Rozada… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) is a method to extract quantitative tissue properties
such as T 1 and T 2 relaxation rates from arbitrary pulse sequences using conventional MRI …

Fast online‐customized (FOCUS) parallel transmission pulses: a combination of universal pulses and individual optimization

J Herrler, P Liebig, R Gumbrecht… - Magnetic resonance …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To mitigate spatial flip angle (FA) variations under strict specific absorption rate
(SAR) constraints for ultra‐high field MRI using a combination of universal parallel transmit …

An efficient approach to optimal experimental design for magnetic resonance fingerprinting with B‐splines

E Scope Crafts, H Lu, H Ye, LL Wald… - Magnetic resonance in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To introduce a computationally efficient approach to optimizing the data acquisition
parameters of MR Fingerprinting experiments with the Cramér–Rao bound. Methods This …

Stochastic optimization of three‐dimensional non‐Cartesian sampling trajectory

G Wang, JF Nielsen, JA Fessler… - Magnetic Resonance in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Optimizing three‐dimensional (3D) k‐space sampling trajectories is important for
efficient MRI yet presents a challenging computational problem. This work proposes a …

Stochastic optimization of 3D non-cartesian sampling trajectory (SNOPY)

G Wang, JF Nielsen, JA Fessler, DC Noll - arxiv preprint arxiv:2209.11030, 2022 - arxiv.org
Optimizing 3D k-space sampling trajectories for efficient MRI is important yet challenging.
This work proposes a generalized framework for optimizing 3D non-Cartesian sampling …

Joint design of RF and gradient waveforms via auto-differentiation for 3D tailored excitation in MRI

T Luo, DC Noll, JA Fessler… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a new method for joint design of radiofrequency (RF) and gradient
waveforms in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and applies it to the design of 3D …

Simultaneous optimization of radio frequency and gradient waveforms with exact Hessians and slew rate constraints applied to kT-points excitation

K Majewski - Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2021 - Elsevier
We consider an excitation pulse with piecewise constant gradient trajectories and radio
frequency (RF) waveforms such that the solution of the Bloch equations without relaxation …

Selective RF excitation designs enabled by time‐varying spatially non‐linear ΔB0 fields with applications in fetal MRI

M Zhang, N Arango, JP Stockmann… - Magnetic resonance …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To demonstrate, through numerical simulations, novel designs of spatially selective
radiofrequency (RF) excitations of the fetal brain by both a restricted 2D slice and 3D inner …