TY - BOOK AU - Hashemi,Ray H. AU - Bradley,William G. AU - Lisanti,Christopher J. TI - MRI: the basics SN - 9781608311156 AV - RC78.7.N83 H44 2010 PY - 2010///] CY - Philadelphia, PA PB - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins KW - Magnetic resonance imaging KW - Magnetic Resonance Imaging KW - Mathematics KW - Physics N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introductory math; -- Basic principles of MRI; -- Radio frequency pulse; -- T1, T2, and T2*; -- TR, TE, and tissue contrast; -- Tissue contrast: some clinical applications; -- Pulse sequences: part I (Saturation, partial saturation, inversion recovery); -- Pulse sequences: part II (Spin echo); -- Fourier transform; -- Image construction: part I (Slice selection); -- Image construction: part II (Spatial encoding); -- Signal processing; -- Data space; -- Pulse sequence diagram; -- Field of view; -- k-Space: the final frontier!; -- Scan parameters and image optimization; -- Artifacts in MRI; -- Fast spin echo; -- Gradient echo: part I (Basic principles); -- Gradient echo: part II (Fast scanning techniques); -- Echo planar imaging; -- New scanning features; -- Parallel imaging (by Mark Bydder, Ph.D.); -- Tissue suppression techniques; -- Flow phenomena; -- MR angiography (contributions by Jiang Du, Ph.D.); -- Cardiac MRI; -- MR spectroscopy in the brain; -- High performance gradients; -- The many combinations of MRI ER -