Designs spectral-spatial and purely spectral prewinding pulses as seen in S. N. Williams, J-F. Nielsen, J.A. Fessler, and D.C. Noll, "Design of spectral-spatial phase prewinding pulses and their use in small-tip fast recovery steady-state imaging", Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2017 DOI 10.1002/mrm.26794
Files for producing spectral and spectral-spatial prewinding RF pulses for MRI
Based on S. N. Williams, J-F. Nielsen, J.A. Fessler, and D.C. Noll, “Design of spectral-spatial phase prewinding pulses and their use in small-tip fast recovery steady-state imaging”, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2017 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mrm.26794/abstract
Files found at: https://github.com/sydneynw/SpectralSpatial/
main files:
-example.m runs example design/plots on human data
-PrewindingPulse.mat human data for pulse design and simulation
-prewinding_pulse.m sets up spectral and spectral-spatial RF pulse design
-spectralRF.m spectral prewinding design
-spectralspatialRF.m spectral prewinding design
… additional file details listed in example.m
needs the following external packages:
-Michigan IRT Jeff Fessler’s Image Recon Toolbox, http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~fessler/code/index.html
-Var. Dens. Spiral Brian Hargreaves’ VDS Functions, http://www-mrsrl.stanford.edu/~brian/vdspiral/
-PTx Bloch Simulator Hao Sun’s Mex Bloch Simulator, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sunhao/
disclaimer: first Github repo, hoping to learn more soon. Please contact me at sydneynw_at_umich_dot_edu for questions or comments, thanks!