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