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By Maximilian F Reiser, Wolfhard Semmler, Hedvig Hricak

ISBN-10: 354029354X

ISBN-13: 9783540293545

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ISBN-13: 9783540293552

Written through a mess of overseas specialists, this e-book presents a complete review of either the physics and the medical purposes of MRI, together with sensible directions for imaging.

The authors outline the significance of MRI within the analysis of numerous disorder teams compared or blend with different tools. Chapters facing simple ideas of MRI, MR spectroscopy (MRS), interventional MRI and useful MRI (fMRI) in addition to the applying of MRI in radiotherapy remedy making plans illustrate the huge diversity of functions for MRI. either typical and state-of-the-art purposes of MRI are integrated. additionally, chapters on molecular imaging and nanotechnology provide glimpses into the way forward for the sector and description the aptitude function of MRI in molecular drugs.

This ebook is meant for a large viewers, together with radiologists often perform, those that focus on MRI, physicists, and clinicians in different fields. Its transparent causes of the fundamental technological know-how of MR may still end up beneficial to scholars getting ready for examinations. furthermore, as an in-depth and wide-ranging reference resource, it's going to be of carrier to citizens, younger physicians simply beginning out, or even skilled physicians.

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After the 90° pulse, the longitudinal magnetization relaxes toward the equilibrium magnetization M0. c Temporal evolution of the transverse magnetization Mxy in the rotating frame. d Induced MR signal SIR(t) pulse, which rotates the partially relaxed longitudinal magnetization Mz(TI) into the x–y-plane, the FID signal is acquired (Fig. 20). The IR sequence is described by the pulse scheme (180°– TI – 90° – AQ). The initial amplitude SIR of the FID signal is directly proportional to the longitudinal magnetization immediately before irradiation of the read-out pulse, just as is the case in the SR method.

As can be shown, the magnetic RF field induces transitions between the two permitted spin states (precession cones) until the occupation numbers are either identical (90° pulse) or inverted (180° pulse). Furthermore, irradiation of a 90° pulse results in a phase synchronization of the nuclear magnetic moments of the sample, which yields a macroscopic transverse magnetization Mxy, the magnitude of which is equal to that of the equilibrium magnetization M0. Figuratively speaking, this means that the precession of the transverse magnetization Mxy can be described as a common (phase coherent) precession of a “spin package” (Fig.

However, such a curve is rather complicated to analyze and interpret. Therefore, the detected curve is usually spit up into its frequency components (Fourier analysis, see Sect. 1) and presented as frequency spectrum. Both types of description are merely different representations of the same data, which can be transformed into one another mathematically by a Fourier transformation. 18b,c illustrates the relation between the description of the MR signal in the time or frequency domain by the example of a substance whose MR spectrum only shows one resonance line.

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