Radiofrequency pulse design with numerical optimization in the Fourier domain.

Objective And Methods: A radiofrequency (RF) pulse design technique is presented that uses iterative constrained minimization to determine Fourier domain coefficients for an optimal time domain RF pulse. The design of new RF pulses is especially beneficial for field strengths of 7.0 T and above, where challenges pertaining to specific absorption rate (SAR) are exacerbated.

Wavelet Domain Radiofrequency Pulse Design Applied to Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

A new method for designing radiofrequency (RF) pulses with numerical optimization in the wavelet domain is presented. Numerical optimization may yield solutions that might otherwise have not been discovered with analytic techniques alone. Further, processing in the wavelet domain reduces the number of unknowns through compression properties inherent in wavelet transforms, providing a more tractable optimization problem.