Flexible and efficient optimization of quantitative sequences using automatic differentiation of Bloch simulations

To investigate a computationally efficient method for optimizing the Cramér‐Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) of quantitative sequences without using approximations or an analytical expression of the signal.

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