"Version: 20230201"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction for residents, technologists, scientists, and for anyone curious -- 1. Five big ideas for MRI -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Waves -- 1.2. MRI as a water image -- 1.3. Multiple looks (contemplating image weighting and the multiple appearances possible in MRI) -- 1.4. Interlude and segue into concepts of electricity and magnetism -- 1.5. Changing fields alter E&M -- 1.6. Dipoles and precession

2. Hardware : five important components and beyond -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Main magnet -- 2.3. Shim coils -- 2.4. MRI gradient coils -- 2.5. Radiofrequency (RF) transmitter -- 2.6. RF receiver -- 2.7. Scaffolding bubble -- 2.8. The briefest of introductions to k-space (traversing frequency space) -- 2.9. Summary and looking ahead

3. Basic building blocks for MRI -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Contrast and spatial resolution -- 3.3. Relaxation (what, how, and when?) -- 3.4. Including inhomogeneity T2* (into T2)! -- 3.5. Table of T1/T2 and physical values -- 3.6. Summary

4. The inside details of MRI -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Free induction decay (FID)--your first signal -- 4.3. Pulse sequence diagrams -- 4.4. Scaffolding box : steps of what is happening in frequency encoding -- 4.5. Spin echo -- 4.6. Summary

5. Getting serious with MRI -- 5.1. Excitation with RF transmit -- 5.2. Traversing with k-space and qualities of the image -- 5.3. On the receiver side -- 5.4. Summary

6. Three tradeoffs in MRI (clinically relevant) -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Factors that change time -- 6.3. SNR tradeoffs -- 6.4. Tradeoffs with SAR (energy) -- 6.5. Knowledge check -- 6.6. Summary of MRI tradeoffs

7. MRI Artifacts (clinically relevant) -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Starting with initial concepts on artifacts -- 7.3. Advanced ideas that are more concerned with frequency space -- 7.4. Material control -- 8. Concluding a journey through MRI.

The purpose of this book is to provide a conceptual approach to understanding the basics of MRI. This book develops materials along a clinical perspective along with a technological examination of how MRI works. Radiology residents, technologists, and technical sales specialists who want to understand the goals of clinical scanners will find this book useful. This book further supports application-oriented MRI objectives of MP3.0 for MRI scientists., medical physicists, and biomedical engineers. MRI concepts and practices have developed enormously over the last 30 years, and this book provides readers with a start to up-to-date overview of current techniques and practices. Part of IPEM-IOP Series in Physics and Engineering in Medicine and Biology.

Medical residents, researchers, radiology technologists.

Also available in print.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Dr. Dee Wu is a Professor and Chief of Technology Applications and Translational Research in the department of Radiological Sciences at OU Health. He also serves as an affiliate of the School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma and has worked as an MRI Scientist and a Medical Physicist for over 30 years. Dr Wu has passion for education and engages in collaborative exchanges with many different professions and medical subspecialties in his practice.

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