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Investigation of the Effect of Finite Pulse Errors on BABA Pulse Sequence Using Floquet-Magnus Expansion Approach
Eugene S Mananga1, Alicia E Reid2
1HARVARD UNIVERSITY, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL Center for Advanced Radiological Sciences, Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Physics Department of Radiology, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02114.
Abstract:
This paper presents the study of finite pulse widths for the BABA pulse sequence using the Floquet-Magnus expansion (FME) approach. In the FME scheme, the first order F1 is identical to its counterparts in average Hamiltonian theory (AHT) and Floquet theory (FT). However, the timing part in the FME approach is introduced via the Λ1 (t) function not present in other schemes. This function provides an easy way for evaluating the spin evolution during "the time in between" through the Magnus expansion of the operator connected to the timing part of the evolution. The evaluation of Λ1 (t) is useful especially for the analysis of the non-stroboscopic evolution. Here, the importance of the boundary conditions, which provides a natural choice of Λ1 (0) is ignored. This work uses the Λ1 (t) function to compare the efficiency of the BABA pulse sequence with δ - pulses and the BABA pulse sequence with finite pulses. Calculations of Λ1 (t) and F1 are presented.
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