Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Subtitle: Theory and Practice
By: by Marinus T. Vlaardingerbroek, Jacques A. Boer
Contributors: Boer, Jacques A.
Edition: Second, Revised and Enlarged Edition.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9783662038024; 9783662038000
Subjects: Medical records; Nuclear medicine; Data processing; Mathematics; Biomedical engineering; Physiology; Physics
Other titles: With a Historical Introduction by André Luiten
Description: This textbook gives a comprehensive survey of the analytical treatment of MRI physics and engineering. It gives readers the background needed to cope with the problems that arise when applying MRI in medicine or when (sub)systems or sequences for new applications are designed. Special attention is paid to the treatment of intrinsic artifacts of the different sequences, which can be described in a mathematically uniform way for the different scan methods. The book contains many images, especially showing specific properties of the different scan methods. The methods discussed include RARE, GRACE, EPI, and Spiral Scan. This second edition has been expanded in response to recent developments. In various places the treatment is refined. In particular, the chapter on motion and flow is expanded, and a new chapter is added, describing the configuration theory and its use in the understanding of multi-pulse sequences such as BURST, TSE and FFE. This edition also offers an overview by A.L. Luiten of the early history of MRI imaging.
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Table of contents: title: MRI and Its Hardware; title: Conventional Imaging Methods; title: Imaging Methods with Advanced k-Space Trajectories; title: Steady-State Gradient-Echo Imaging; title: Transient Gradient-Echo Imaging; title: Contrast and Signal-to-Noise Ratio; title: Motion and Flow; title: Partitioning of the Magnetization in Multi-pulse Sequences; title: References.