Characterizing Spatial-Spatial-Spectral MRI

Kenneth Michel Brodeur


List of Symbols


Symbol

Discription

n frequency
g gyromagnetic ratio
B0 standing magnetic field
x spatial coordinate
y spatial coordinate
n0 Larmor Frequency, frequency of induced nuclear magnitic spin
Gx frequency encoding gradient, magnetic field gradient in x dimension
G0 phase-encoding gradient, magnetic field gradient at 0° of projection
d spectral frequency response coordinate: chemical shift
q projection angle
BW(q) sampling frequency bandwidth used by MRI to record a specified projection angle, q
BWq=0 sampling bandwidth at 0°
BWq=90 sampling bandwidth at 90°
q spectral width of the field of view of the purely spectral projection q
D spatial width of the field of view of the purely spatial projectionq
T1 spin lattice relaxation time
FWHM full width at half maximum
qs number of samples (projections) from the sinogram


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