Echo-Planar Imaging: Theory, Technique and Application - Hardcover

Schmitt, Franz; Stehling, Michael K.; Turner, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540631941 ISBN 13: 9783540631941

Publisher: Springer, 1998

Synopsis

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made oj': Benjamin Franklin This book describes the technical principles and applications of echo-planar imaging (EPI) which, as much as any other technique, has shaped the develop­ ment of modern magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The principle of EPI, namely, the acquisition of multiple nuclear magnetic resonance echoes from a single spin excitation, has made it possible to shorten the previously time-con­ suming MRI data acquisition from minutes to much less than a second. Interest­ ingly, EPI is one of the oldest MRI techniques, conceived in 1976 by Sir Peter Mansfield only 4 years after the initial description of the principles of MRI. One of the inventors of MRI himself, Mansfield realized that fast data acquisition would be paramount in bringing medical applications of MRI to full fruition. The technological challenges in implementing EPI, however, were formidable. Until the end of the 1980s few people believed that EPI would be clinically useful, since its complexity was far greater than that of "conventional" MRI methods.

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This book describes applications and techniques of the MRI method of echo-planar imaging. I contains detailed and precise accounts of image production, artifacts, and optimization methods. Applications are imaging of brain function, stroke and cerebral blood flow as well as cardiac and abdominal clinical uses.

Synopsis:

This work describes the applications and techniques of the MRI method of echo-planar imaging. It contains accounts of image production, artifacts and optimization methods. Applications include imaging of brain function, stroke and cerebral blood flow as well as cardiac and abdominal clinical uses.

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 3540631941
• ISBN 13: 9783540631941
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 662