title: Variable slew-rate spiral design: theory and application to peak B(1) amplitude reduction in 2D RF pulse design.
abstract: A new class of spiral trajectories called variable slew-rate spirals is proposed. The governing differential equations for a variable slew-rate spiral are derived, and both numeric and analytic solutions to the equations are given. The primary application of variable slew-rate spirals is peak B(1) amplitude reduction in 2D RF pulse design. The reduction of peak B(1) amplitude is achieved by changing the gradient slew-rate profile, and gradient amplitude and slew-rate constraints are inherently satisfied by the design of variable slew-rate spiral gradient waveforms. A design example of 2D RF pulses is given, which shows that under the same hardware constraints the RF pulse using a properly chosen variable slew-rate spiral trajectory can be much shorter than that using a conventional constant slew-rate spiral trajectory, thus having greater immunity to resonance frequency offsets.
authors: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA. danxu@uiuc.edu
authors: Dan
authors: D
authors: Xu
authors: Kevin F
authors: KF
authors: King
authors: Zhi-Pei
authors: ZP
authors: Liang
mesh_terms: D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008433:Mathematics