Contents

• Henkestr
• 1 Tracing the MR Signal
• 2 MRI in a nutshell
• 8 Magnetizing the body
• 24 The beauty of spin
• 38 Creating the resonance
• 54 The technical side
• 2 Echoes, Decay, and Relaxation
• 66 A first acquaintance with relaxation
• 74 Longitudinal recovery
• 80 Transverse decay
• 86 The spin echo
• 3 From the Signal to the Image
• 96 Slicing by gradients
• 108 The matrix: resolution
• 120 Introducing the pulse sequence
• 126 Meet the gradient echo
• 4 A Study of Contrasts
• 132 Spin echoes and contrast weighting
• 142 Contrast with inversion recovery
• 148 Contrast with gradient echoes
• 5 The Strategy of Image Quality
• 158 Contrast, signal, and noise
• 170 About image size and resolution
• 176 Speeding up the measurement
• 6 Increasing Diagnostic Value
• 186 Packing echoes and slices
• 194 Take the echo train: Turbo spin echo
• 200 Echo-planar imaging (EPI)
• 206 Ultrahigh fields
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