Designing Fast 3-d Rf Excitations by Optimizing the Number, Placement and Weighting of Spokes in K-space via a Sparsity-enforcement Algorithm
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A. C. Zelinski, K. Setsompop, V. K. Goyal, V. Alagappan, U. Fontius, F. Schmitt, L. L. Wald, and E. Adalsteinsson Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, United States, Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States
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