/RFpulsesEducation

This is a demo code for RF pulses in 2022 ISMRM

Primary LanguageC++

RFpulsesEducation

Demo codes for a detailed analysis of RF pulse effects, basis design methods of RF pulses and some advanced pulses!

Basic RF pulse concepts

 Hardware, bloch description, pulse properties, excitation, inversion, refocusing

RF pulse design methods

 Small tip angle(STA) approximation
 Fourier-domain designs using k-space description 
 Shinnar-LeRoux(SLR) algorithm

Adcanced RF pulses

Adiabatic RF pulses
Multi-band pulses

Useful Reference:

RF Pulse Design Tool from John Pauly: (https://rsl.stanford.edu/research/software.html)
Pulse Tools from Will Grissoms (https://my.vanderbilt.edu/grissomlab/software/)
Multiband RF toolbox( https://github.com/mriphysics/Multiband-RF)
Bloch simulator from Brian Hargreaves: ( https://mrsrl.stanford.edu/~brian/blochsim/)
SpinTool from Assaf Tal(https://www.weizmann.ac.il/chembiophys/assaf_tal/software-0)
MRI RF Design (sigpy.mri.rf) (https://github.com/mikgroup/sigpy/blob/master/docs/mri_rf.rst)