Login / Signup

SORDOR pulses: expansion of the Böhlen-Bodenhausen scheme for low-power broadband magnetic resonance.

Jens D HallerDavid L GoodwinBurkhard Luy
Published in: Magnetic resonance (Gottingen, Germany) (2022)
A novel type of efficient broadband pulse, called second-order phase dispersion by optimised rotation (SORDOR), has recently been introduced. In contrast to adiabatic excitation, SORDOR-90 pulses provide effective transverse 90 ∘ rotations throughout their bandwidth, with a quadratic offset dependence of the phase in the x , y plane. Together with phase-matched SORDOR-180 pulses, this enables the Böhlen-Bodenhausen broadband refocusing approach for linearly frequency-swept pulses to be extended to any type of 90 ∘ /180 ∘ pulse-delay sequence. Example pulse shapes are characterised in theory and experiment, and an example application is given with a 19 F -PROJECT experiment for measuring relaxation times with reduced distortions due to J -coupling evolution.
Keyphrases
  • magnetic resonance
  • blood pressure
  • high speed
  • quality improvement
  • contrast enhanced
  • magnetic resonance imaging
  • mass spectrometry
  • ionic liquid
  • energy transfer