Abstract #2855

Adiabatic Pulses Revisited Through Averaging

Bahman Tahayori^1,2, Leigh Andrea Johnston^1,2, Peter Mark Farrell^1,2, Iven Michiel Yvonne Mareels^1,2

¹EEE Department, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; ²NICTA Victoria Research Laboratory, Melbourne, Australia

In this paper, the Bloch equation is scaled and averaged consequently to find the magnetization behaviour in a simple way with a negligible error for adiabatic passages. The novel framework presented here may be used to optimise the modulation functions of the adiabatic passages.