Cooperative pulses

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PATENT NO 9557398
APP PUB NO 20130090884A1
SERIAL NO

13704994

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A method is proposed for the simultaneous optimization of an arbitrary number of electromagnetic pulses, which act in a cooperative way, or mutually compensate each other's errors. The method generally relates to pulses which can have improved properties when cooperating with each other compared to single pulses. In experiments with several scans, undesired signal contributions can be suppressed by COOP pulses, which complements and generalizes the concept of phase cycling. COOP pulses can also be used in individual scans. COOP pulses can be optimized efficiently with the aid of an extended version of the optimal-control-theory-based gradient ascent pulse engineering (GRAPE) algorithm. The advantage of the COOP pulse method is demonstrated theoretically and experimentally for broadband and band-selective excitation and saturation pulses.

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TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHENARCISSTRASSE 21 MUENCHEN 80333

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Braun, Michael Munich, DE 129 2918
Glaser, Steffen J Garching, DE 1 5

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