Course Outline

Section 1: Excitation k-Space

  • Characteristics of RF

  • Excitation k-space

  • Small-Tip-Angle Excitation Pulses

  • Slice-selective pulses

  • Multidimensional pulses

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

  • Parallel transmit pulse design

  • B1 Mapping

Section 5: Imaging Short T2 Species

  • Short-T2 pulse sequences

  • Half-pulse excitation

  • Long-T2 suppression pulses

Section 6: RF in Pulse Sequences

  • Multislice Pulses

  • RF pulse design for steady-state sequences

  • Steady-state catalyzation and transition pulses

  • Spin-Echo Pulse Trains