title: Introduction to: A k-space analysis of small-tip-angle excitation.
abstract: The article "A k-space analysis of small-tip-angle excitation" introduced a spatial frequency interpretation of the effect of RF excitation pulses. This introduction describes where the initial ideas for this paper came from, and traces out some of the applications that have been developed using this perspective.
authors: Magnetic Resonance Systems Research Laboratory, Stanford University, USA. pauly@stanford.edu
authors: John M
authors: JM
authors: Pauly
authors: Dwight G
authors: DG
authors: Nishimura
authors: Albert
authors: A
authors: Macovski
mesh_terms: D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*