Welcome to the special version of The Basics of MRI for mobile devices. This version is designed for portable devices with smaller touch screens and HTML 5 browsers. Earlier versions of this book used frames, which are not supported in HTML 5. Therefore, some major changes have been made to the presentation. All of the images have been placed in the text. References have been placed at the end of each chapter.
Organization
The educational content of this package is organized into 15 chapters.
These fifteen chapters may be accessed by clicking on the chapter title in the table of contents with the mouse.
Each chapter has several sub sections.
The titles of the sub sections are listed at the top of each chapter.
The text of a chapter may ontains links to other chapters in this book.
Clicking on one of these will bring up the location in the new chapter containing the reference material.
There are over 100 terms defined in the glossary and 118 symbols in a list of symbols.
Both the symbols and glossary can be viewed in their entirety by clicking on them in the table of contents.
Each entry in the glossary contains a link to a chapter where it was first introduced.
This feature therefore makes the glossary also serve as an index.
You may further search for a term in a chapter with the edit find command of your browser.
Unfortunately, not all features that The Basics of MRI is known for, such as the animation and text frames; the play, start, detail, proof, and reference icons; and problem answers are available in the mobile version. For some of these functions and information you will need to view The Basics of MRI on a desktop or laptop computer. There are occasional references to previous and future chapters in the text. When the word chapter and the accompanying number are underlined you may click on the word and go directly to that chapter.
Some chapters contain audio segments. An audio segment is indicated by a special, browser specific symbol. You may start the sound segment playing through your computer's audio system using the play start/stop button. The volume may be decreased from your computer's current setting by clicking on the volume button and adjusting the volume control.
The content of this package has been organized so that background material and underlying principles are introduced first in separate chapters. Each chapter builds on the previous one. The very knowledgeable student may elect to skip these chapters; however this is discouraged as often times nomenclature, conventions, and symbols are introduced in these introductory chapters.
Learning Styles
Did you every think about how you learn?
Humans tend to learn by taking information into their brains through their five senses.
For most of us the order of importance of the senses for learning is: sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste.
Unless you are a wine taster, you probably do not learn too much by taste,
and unless you are taking a chemistry lab, not too much by smell.
Touch is very important for artists, airline pilots, and the blind.
Those of us in the sciences rely on vision and hearing for most of our information,
so it should come as no surprise that the formal educational experiences available to us are
designed to provide audio and visual information.
There are further differences in learning styles worth mentioning here. Some of us learn better with language and others pictures, while others learn better by doing. That is why some people prefer to learn by reading a description and others seeing a diagram or picture, while still others must work an idea out for themselves. Some language learners learn best by reading a description and others must hear the description. Everyone has a different preferred learning style. For these reasons The Basics of MRI contains a variety of learning experiences. Text for those that learn best by reading, diagrams and animations for those that learn best be seeing pictures, problems for those that learn best by doing, and audio clips to help learn by hearing. It is important for you to understand your preferred learning style and to take advantage of the experiences in this book that help you learn best.
Acknowledgements
The idea for this package grew out of two earlier Microsoft DOS based educational packages on
nuclear magnetic resonance imaging and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
Many of the figures used in this package were prepared by Dmitriy Beryoza,
Ann Cecchi, Manish Kadaki, and Dimitrios Psarros. The cover design is by Elizabeth Jurkowski.
The magnetic resonance images used in this package were collected using a General Electric, 1.5 Tesla,
magnetic resonance imager located at the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center at the University of Rochester's
Strong Memorial Hospital. Dr. Saara M. Totterman's assistance in providing access to this facility is greatly appreciated.
Copyright
The Basics of MRI is copyrighted © 1996-2020 by J.P. Hornak.
All Rights Reserved.
No part of this educational package may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,
or transmitted, in any form or by any means: digital, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise,
without the prior written permission of the author,
Joseph P. Hornak, Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623-5604.
The Basics of MRI was created as a private undertaking without commercial or government support. The material in The Basics of MRI is made available for viewing on the web at no charge. It is therefore our policy to charge commercial endeavors for a nonexclusive right to use material from The Basics of MRI. For information on the use of material from The Basics of MRI, please send your request to the author. Students may request to use figures from The Basics of MRI in a thesis or school project provided the material is not placed on the internet and the material is properly cited. Interested students should send their specific request to the author.
Citing
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and publisher (Interactive Learning Software, Henietta, NY). This might read: "J.P. Hornak, The Basics of MRI, Interactive Learning Software, Henrietta, NY, 2012, http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/mri/."
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