Chapter 1 - Table of Contents
1.1 -
Introduction
1.2 -
Imaging Parameters: Effects on Image SNR
1.2.1
Measuring Image SNR
1.2.2
Voxel Size
1.2.3
Signal Sampling Time
1.2.4
Receive Bandwidth
1.2.5
Number of Excitations (NEX)
1.2.6
3D Acquisitions
1.2.7
Frequency Oversampling and
No Phase Wrap
1.2.8
Zero-filling
1.2.9
Slice Thickness and Inter-slice Spacing
1.2.10
Prescan
1.3 -
Inherent Tissue Parameters: Effects on CNR
1.3.1
Proton Density
1.3.2
T2 and T2* Relaxation
1.3.3
T1 Relaxation
1.3.4
Paramagnetic Contrast Agents
1.3.5
Magnetization Transfer Contrast (MTC)
1.4 -
Spin Echo Techniques
1.4.1
Conventional Spin Echo
1.4.2
Double Echo Spin Echo
1.4.3
Fast Spin Echo
1.4.4
Double Echo Fast Spin Echo
1.4.5
Full Echo Train
1.4.6
Split Echo Train
1.5 -
Gradient Echo Techniques
1.5.1
Gradient Recalled Acquisition in the Steady State (GRASS)
1.5.2
SPGR
1.6 -
Fat Suppression
1.6.1
Frequency-selective Fat Saturation (Fat SAT)
1.6.2
Short Tau Inversion Recovery (STIR)
1.6.3
Spectral Inversion At Lipids Fat Suppression (SPECIAL)
1.7 -
Conclusion
