When I started my GE career in 2008, I was given a project on parallel transmit pulse design. New to the field, I started with reading publications on the subject, and by late 2009, I had figured that many textbook treatments of spatial RF pulse design methods can be reformulated through what I called the local rotating frame transformation. And to me the new formulation looked very advantageous. For one thing, I was able to explain why so-called low-tip-angle method works well for not-so-low flip angles. In physics, that's sufficient to gain recognition and to be published. Well, people in the MRI field were not so impressed. No patent application was approved, and no journal publication followed despite multiple attempts by 2010. Then I had to move on.
Now the work, expanded and revised, is finally published (in-press link) in an Elsevier journal, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, after a peer review with 3 reviewers. I feel like a composer whose symphony took decades to get out and be played (read). With 3 Appendices and 15 double-column pages, it is a substantial work for a single author paper. I just returned the proof. It is out there, waiting to ring a bell in someone like me.
