MR Physics I: Signal and Image Formation

How an MRI scanner turns hydrogen nuclei into an image: spin, resonance, relaxation, echoes, gradients and k-space.

MRI-110 Year 1 3 credits 12 lessons planned ▶ Video lessons coming soon

Offered by HSM University · Medical Imaging

Course content

  1. 1Magnetism and the MRI scannerComing
  2. 2Nuclear spin and precessionComing
  3. 3Resonance and the Larmor equationComing
  4. 4T1 recoveryComing
  5. 5T2 and T2* decayComing
  6. 6Image contrast: T1, T2 and proton densityComing
  7. 7Spin echoComing
  8. 8Gradient echoComing
  9. 9Spatial encoding with gradientsComing
  10. 10k-spaceComing
  11. 11Image quality: SNR, resolution and scan timeComing
  12. 12MR physics problem setComing

Requirements

Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.

Description

How an MRI scanner turns hydrogen nuclei into an image: spin, resonance, relaxation, echoes, gradients and k-space.

Part of the Health Sciences stream, typically taken in year 1.