title: On self-refocusing pulses for rapid gradient-echo imaging.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Radiology Department, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: McKinnon
mesh_terms: D006321:Heart / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D011846:Radio Waves; D013997:Time Factors