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Algebraic geometric classification of the singular flow in the contrast imaging problem in nuclear magnetic resonance. (English) Zbl 1273.94128

Summary: The analysis of the contrast problem in NMR medical imaging is essentially reduced to the analysis of the so-called singular trajectories of the system modeling the problem: a coupling of two spin 1/2 control systems. They are solutions of a constraint Hamiltonian vector field and restricting the dynamics to the zero level set of the Hamiltonian they define a vector field on \(B_1 \times B_2\), where \(B_1\) and \(B_2\) are the Bloch balls of the two spin particles. In this article we classify the behaviors of the solutions in relation with the relaxation parameters using the concept of feedback classification. The optimality status is analyzed using the feedback invariant concept of conjugate points.

MSC:

94A08 Image processing (compression, reconstruction, etc.) in information and communication theory
49K15 Optimality conditions for problems involving ordinary differential equations
92C55 Biomedical imaging and signal processing
81Q93 Quantum control
14L24 Geometric invariant theory