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Basics of MRIVinai Roopchansingh
Functional MRI Facility, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, USA
June 12, 2017
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Outline• System overview
• Components of the acronym
• What’s the Magnet for?
• Where does Resonance come in?
• How is Imaging accomplished?
• Some basic types of MR contrast
• Re-cap of System overview
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Outline• System overview
• Components of the acronym
• What’s the Magnet for?
• Where does Resonance come in?
• How is Imaging accomplished?
• Some basic types of MR contrast
• Re-cap of System overview
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System overview
Huettel - Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging4
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Outline• System overview
• Components of the acronym
• What’s the Magnet for?
• Where does Resonance come in?
• How is Imaging accomplished?
• Some basic types of MR contrast
• Re-cap of System overview
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Magnets, magnets, everywhere
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• Certain nuclei (odd number of protons and/or neutrons) have magnetic properties (i.e. magnetic moment - 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics, to Bloch and Purcell).
• Include 13C, 23Na, 31P, 129Xe, and …
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Magnets, magnets, everywhere
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• Certain nuclei (odd number of protons and/or neutrons) have magnetic properties (i.e. magnetic moment - 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics, to Bloch and Purcell).
• Include 13C, 23Na, 31P, 129Xe, and …
• 1H !
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Magnets, magnets, everywhere
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• Protons randomly aligned naturally
• Magnetic poles line up when exposed to strong magnets
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Magnets, magnets, everywhere
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http://wikidoc.org/index.php/Basic_MRI_Physics
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Magnets, magnets, everywhere
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http://ccn.ucla.edu/BMCweb/SharedCode/TINS/FMRI-TINS.html
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Magnets, magnets, everywhere
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAE12114468910462
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Magnets, magnets, everywhere
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⍵0 = γ B0
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Outline• System overview
• Components of the acronym
• What’s the Magnet for?
• Where does Resonance come in?
• How is Imaging accomplished?
• Some basic types of MR contrast
• Re-cap of System overview
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Resonance
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• Protons aligned with main magnetic field (B0) are not visible / detectable in MR imaging
• “Flip” / excite into visibility by applying energy at the same frequency as precession …
• == Resonance !
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAE12114468910462
Resonance
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Resonance
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• Perpendicular protons (partially or completely) are visible in typical MR experiment.
• “Flip” angle ≈ degree of tip - a type of contrast
• High RF power for short time vs. low power for longer time. Same flip angle - but can give different contrast
• Uniform B0 → uniform signal - cannot localize …
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Outline• System overview
• Components of the acronym
• What’s the Magnet for?
• Where does Resonance come in?
• How is Imaging accomplished?
• Some basic types of MR contrast
• Re-cap of System overview
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Imaging
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• Uniform B0 → uniform signal - cannot localize … so how to image?
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Imaging
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• Uniform B0 → uniform signal - cannot localize … so how to image?
• Apply controlled distortion to B0
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Imaging
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Imaging
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• Uniform B0 → uniform signal - cannot localize … so how to image?
• Apply controlled distortion to B0
• → → → Spatially varying frequency
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⍵0 = γ B0
Imaging
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⍵x = γ Bx
Imaging
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⍵X = γ (B0 + GX)
Imaging
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Imaging
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http://sfb649.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/fedc_homepage/xplore/ebooks/html/csa/node255.html
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Imaging
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• Extend frequency change to other dimensions (x, y) for image encoding.
• 1st dimension → frequency encoding
• 2nd dimension → phase encoding
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http://www.revisemri.com/questions/creating_an_image/frequency_encoding_gradient
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Imaging
30AJNR, Gallagher, DOI:10.2214/AJR.07.2874
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Imaging
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• Extend frequency change to other dimensions (x, y) for image encoding.
• 1st dimension → frequency encoding
• 2nd dimension → phase encoding
• Effects of gradients encodes “k-space”
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Imaging
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JMRI, Paschal and Morris, DOI: 10.1002/jmri.10451
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Huettel - Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging33
Imaging
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Signal (Fourier Transform) Equation in MRI
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Imaging
35AJNR, Gallagher, DOI:10.2214/AJR.07.2874
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Imaging
36AJNR, Gallagher, DOI:10.2214/AJR.07.2874
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Imaging
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JMRI, Paschal and Morris, DOI: 10.1002/jmri.10451
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Imaging
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https://users.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~stuart/thesis/chapter_2/section2_3.html
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Outline• System overview
• Components of the acronym
• What’s the Magnet for?
• Where does Resonance come in?
• How is Imaging accomplished?
• Some basic types of MR contrast
• Re-cap of System overview
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Contrast
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Contrast - T1
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Contrast - T1
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Contrast - T2
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Contrast - T2
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Contrast - BOLD
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Contrast - BOLD
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http://web.mit.edu/6.013_book/www/chapter10/10.4.html
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Contrast - BOLD
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http://web.mit.edu/6.013_book/www/chapter10/10.4.html
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Contrast - BOLD
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Contrast - BOLD
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Contrast
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• BOLD == T2*
• FLAIR (Fluid Attenuated Inversion recovery)
• Magnetization Transfer (MT) - MRM, 1989 Vol 10:135-144 - Wolff and Balaban
• Perfusion imaging - MRM, 1992 Vol 23:37-45 - Detre et.al.
• Diffusion imaging - Nature Reviews Neuroscience 4, 469-480 (June 2003) - DOI:10.1038/nrn1119 (review paper)
• Phase imaging - PNAS, 2007 Vol 104(28):11796-11801 - Duyn et.al.
• …
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Outline• System overview
• Components of the acronym
• What’s the Magnet for?
• Where does Resonance come in?
• How is Imaging accomplished?
• Some basic types of MR contrast
• Re-cap of System overview
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System overview
Huettel - Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging52