Introduction to NMR

08/05/01


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Table of Contents

MRI System Block Diagram

The Magnet

Superconducting Magnets

Superconducting Magnets

Passive Shielding

Radio-Frequency Shielding

The Gradient Coil

Principle of Gradient Coil

Gradient Coil

Gradient Coil Performance

Room Temperature Shims

Radio-Frequency Coils

Radio-Frequency Coils

RF Coil Designs

Birdcage Coils

Surface Receive Coils

PPT Slide

Alignment of Spins in a Magnetic Field

Energy in a Magnetic Field (Zeeman Splitting, Spin ½)

Larmor Frequency

Coupling with a B1 Field

Spin Excitation

Spin Excitation

Free Induction Decay

Free Induction Decay

Free Induction Decay

Product Operators

Bloch Equations

T1 Relaxation

T1 Weighted Imaging

T1 Weighted Image

Spin Echo

Spin Echo

T2 Relaxation

T2 Weighted Imaging

T2 Weighted Image

Slice Selection

Slice Selection

PPT Slide

Author: Peter Jezzard

Email: peterj@fmrib.ox.ac.uk

Home Page: http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk

Other information:
FMRIB Centre, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, OX3 9DU, ENGLAND