Synopsis

Keywords: Education Committee: Clinical MRI

This educational lecture will provide an overview of the image contrast mechanism of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). This lecture will focus on the common and basics MR image contrast based on magnetization relaxation. This presentation will cover the basics physics of MRI contrast generation, relationship between key acquisition parameters and image contrast, and acquisition parameter optimization for better image contrast. The course will be non-mathematical. The lecture starts with how MRI works, then break it down to contrast mechanism details.