39357 - Magnetic Resonance Equipment

Academic Year 2016/2017

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Imaging and Radiotherapy techniques (cod. 8486)

Course contents

PHENOMENON OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE
magnetization
excitation
INTRINSIC CHARACTERISTICS OF MATTER
Signal parameters
1. proton Density
2. 2. T1 or spin-lattice relaxation time
3. T2 relaxation time or spin-spin
4. Chemical Shift
5. Flow and flow dynamics
6. Magnetization Trasfert MT
7. Magnetic Susceptibility: substances
diamagnetic
paramagnetic
superparamagnetic
ferromagnetic
APPLICATIONS AND EQUIPMENT

Part 1 Introduction to physics MR

• Magnets
• Magnetization
• Excitement
• Rilassamneto
• Gradients COILS shimming
volume
surface
Phased Array
• Introduction to the k-Space
• Sequences and pulses MR

Part 2 MR Applied

SEQUENCE AND PULSES IN MR
§ Sequence Spin Echo
§ Multi Slicing
§ Sequence Spin Echo: T2
§ Fast (Turbo) Spin Echo
§ Fast Advanced Spin Echo (STEP)
§ Sequence Gradient Echo or Field Echo (GE or FE)
§ Sequence Inversion Recovery (IR)
or STIR
or SPIR
or FLAIR

PARAMETERS OF SEQUENCE

TR repetition time
TE Time Echo
FA Flip Angle
TI InversionTime NA Number of acquisitions NSA, NEX
MX Matrix
FOV Field Of View
ST Slice Thickness
SG Slice Gap
PE Phase Encoding
BW Bandwidth

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