Course Outline
Section 1: Excitation k-Space
Section 2: Large Tip Angle Pulses
Representation of rotations, spinors
Forward Shinnar-Le Roux (SLR) transform
Inverse SLR transform for RF pulse design
Design relations for slice selective pulses
Self-Refocusing Pulses
Large-Tip-Angle Multidimensional Pulses
Section 3: Adiabatic Pulses
Adiabatic inversion pulse solution to the Bloch equation
Frequency sweep interpretation
Adiabatic excitation, spin-echo, and rotation pulses
Section 4: Parallel Excitation
Section 5: Imaging Short T2 Species
Section 6: RF in Pulse Sequences
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