RF Tools Demo

This NeuroLibre tutorial is a fork of John Pauly’s tutorial on his rf_tools Octave package, which was presented as part of the Open-Source Software Tools session at ISMRM 2019, in Montreal Canada.

The figures are interactive, and to modi

Outline

There are four parts to this tutorial

• RF Pulse simulator – abr.m
• Shinnar-Le Roux pulse design routines – b2rf.m, and friends
• Minimum and maximum phase pulses – dzmp.m
• 2D spiral pulse design – dz2d.m

The first three sections cover the Shinnar-Le Roux (SLR) pulse design method described in

“Parameter relations for the Shinnar-Le Roux selective excitation pulse design algorithm,” J Pauly, P Le Roux, D Nishimura, A Macovski IEEE transactions on medical imaging 10 (1), 53-65