New edition explores contemporary MRI principles and practices

Thoroughly revised, updated and expanded, the second edition of Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Physical Principles and Sequence Design remains the preeminent text in its field. Using consistent nomenclature and mathematical notations throughout all the chapters, this new edition carefully explains the physical principles of magnetic resonance imaging design and implementation. In addition, detailed figures and MR images enable readers to better grasp core concepts, methods, and applications.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Second Edition begins with an introduction to fundamental principles, with coverage of magnetization, relaxation, quantum mechanics, signal detection and acquisition, Fourier imaging, image reconstruction, contrast, signal, and noise. The second part of the text explores MRI methods and applications, including fast imaging, water-fat separation, steady state gradient echo imaging, echo planar imaging, diffusion-weighted imaging, and induced magnetism. Lastly, the text discusses important hardware issues and parallel imaging.

Readers familiar with the first edition will find much new material, including:

* New chapter dedicated to parallel imaging

* New sections examining off-resonance excitation principles, contrast optimization in fast steady-state incoherent imaging, and efficient lower-dimension analogues for discrete Fourier transforms in echo planar imaging applications

* Enhanced sections pertaining to Fourier transforms, filter effects on image resolution, and Bloch equation solutions when both rf pulse and slice select gradient fields are present

* Valuable improvements throughout with respect to equations, formulas, and text

* New and updated problems to test further the readers' grasp of core concepts

Three appendices at the end of the text offer review material for basic electromagnetism and statistics as well as a list of acquisition parameters for the images in the book.

Acclaimed by both students and instructors, the second edition of Magnetic Resonance Imaging offers the most comprehensive and approachable introduction to the physics and the applications of magnetic resonance imaging.

Robert W. Brown, Ph.D.
Institute Professor and Distinguished University Professor
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
His research group efforts have resulted in over 200 published papers and abstracts, and his former students hold at least 150 patents (eight co-authored by him) and he has done important work in radiation physics, MRI, PET, CT, electromagnetics, inverse methods, mechanical and thermal modeling, nonlinear dynamics, EEG, MEG, sensors, and physics education, as well as a professional-life-long involvement in elementary particle physics and cosmology.

Yu-Chung N. Cheng, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Radiology
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA

E. Mark Haacke, Ph.D.
Professor of Radiology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Professor of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Adjunct Professor of Radiology, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, USA
Adjunct Professor of Radiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Distinguished Foreign Professor, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
Director of The Magnetic Resonance Imaging Institute for Biomedical Research and Professor of Radiology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University. Dr. Haacke has two decades of experience teaching courses in physics, mathematics and statistics.

Michael R. Thompson, Ph.D.
Principal Scientist, Toshiba Medical Research Institute,
Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Ramesh Venkatesan, D.Sc.
Manager, MR Applications Engineering
Wipro GE Healthcare Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Thoroughly revised, updated and expanded, the second edition of Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Physical Principles and Sequence Design remains the preeminent text in its field. Using consistent nomenclature and mathematical notations throughout all the chapters, this new edition carefully explains the physical principles of magnetic resonance imaging design and implementation. In addition, detailed figures and MR images enable readers to better grasp core concepts, methods, and applications.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Second Edition begins with an introduction to fundamental principles, with coverage of magnetization, relaxation, quantum mechanics, signal detection and acquisition, Fourier imaging, image reconstruction, contrast, signal, and noise. The second part of the text explores MRI methods and applications, including fast imaging, water-fat separation, steady state gradient echo imaging, echo planar imaging, diffusion-weighted imaging, and induced magnetism. Lastly, the text discusses important hardware issues and parallel imaging.

Readers familiar with the first edition will find much new material, including:

• New chapter dedicated to parallel imaging
• New sections examining off-resonance excitation principles, contrast optimization in fast steady-state incoherent imaging, and efficient lower-dimension analogues for discrete Fourier transforms in echo planar imaging applications
• Enhanced sections pertaining to Fourier transforms, filter effects on image resolution, and Bloch equation solutions when both rf pulse and slice select gradient fields are present
• Valuable improvements throughout with respect to equations, formulas, and text
• New and updated problems to test further the readers' grasp of core concepts

Three appendices at the end of the text offer review material for basic electromagnetism and statistics as well as a list of acquisition parameters for the images in the book.

Acclaimed by both students and instructors, the second edition of Magnetic Resonance Imaging offers the most comprehensive and approachable introduction to the physics and the applications of magnetic resonance imaging.

Foreword to the Second Edition xvii

Foreword to the First ~ Edition xxi

Preface to the Second Edition xxvii

Preface to the First Edition xxix

Acknowledgements xxx

Acknowledgements to the First Edition xxxi

1 Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Preview 1

1.1 Magnetic Resonance Imaging: The Name 1

1.2 The Origin of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2

1.3 A Brief Overview of MRI Concepts 3

2 Classical Response of a Single Nucleus to a Magnetic Field 19

2.1 Magnetic Moment in the Presence of a Magnetic Field 20

2.2 Magnetic Moment with Spin: Equation of Motion 25

2.3 Precession Solution: Phase 29

3 Rotating Reference Frames and Resonance 37

3.1 Rotating Reference Frames 38

3.2 The Rotating Frame for an RF Field 41

3.3 Resonance Condition and the RF Pulse 44

4 Magnetization, Relaxation, and the Bloch Equation 53

4.1 Magnetization Vector 53

4.2 Spin-Lattice Interaction and Regrowth Solution 54

4.3 Spin-Spin Interaction and Transverse Decay 57

4.4 Bloch Equation and Static-Field Solutions 60

4.5 The Combination of Static and RF Fields 62

5 The Quantum Mechanical Basis of Precession and Excitation 67

5.1 Discrete Angular Momentum and Energy 68

5.2 Quantum Operators and the Schrödinger Equation 72

5.3 Quantum Derivation of Precession 77

5.4 Quantum Derivati…