Echo-Planar Imaging: Theory, Technique and Application
Author: Franz Schmitt, Michael K. Stehling PhD, MD, Robert Turner PhD
Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg
ISBN: 978-3-642-80445-8
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-80443-4

Table of Contents:

• The Historical Development of Echo-Planar Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Theory of Echo-Planar Imaging
• Echo-Planar Imaging Hardware
• Echo-Planar Imaging Pulse Sequences
• Echo-Planar Image Reconstruction
• Echo-Planar Imaging Image Artifacts
• Physiological Side Effects of Fast Gradient Switching
• Echo-Planar Imaging Angiography
• Diffusion Imaging with Echo-Planar Imaging
• Echo-Planar Imaging of the Abdomen
• Abdominal Diffusion Imaging Using Echo-Planar Imaging
• Echo-Planar Imaging of the Heart
• Perfusion Imaging with Echo-Planar Imaging
• Clinical Applications of Neuroimaging Using Echo-Planar Imaging
• Echo-Planar Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Human Brain Activation
• Research Issues Using Echo-Planar Imaging for Functional Brain Imaging
• Echo-Planar Imaging on Small-Bore Systems
• Single Shot RARE
• Turbo Spin-Echo Imaging
• Gradient and Spin-Echo (GRASE) Imaging

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

1. The Historical Development of Echo-Planar Magnetic Resonance Imaging -- 2. Theory of Echo-Planar Imaging -- 3. Echo-Planar Imaging Hardware -- 4. Echo-Planar Imaging Pulse Sequences -- 5. Echo-Planar Image Reconstruction -- 6. Echo-Planar Imaging Image Artifacts -- 7. Physiological Side Effects of Fast Gradient Switching -- 8. Echo-Planar Imaging Angiography -- 9. Diffusion Imaging with Echo-Planar Imaging -- 10. Echo-Planar Imaging of the Abdomen -- 11. Abdominal Diffusion Imaging Using Echo-Planar Imaging -- 12. Echo-Planar Imaging of the Heart -- 13. Perfusion Imaging with Echo-Planar Imaging -- 14. Clinical Applications of Neuroimaging Using Echo-Planar Imaging -- 15. Echo-Planar Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Human Brain Activation -- 16. Research Issues Using Echo-Planar Imaging for Functional Brain Imaging -- 17. Echo-Planar Imaging on Small-Bore Systems -- 18. Echo-Planar Imaging-Hybrids: Single Shot RARE -- 19. Echo-Planar Imaging-Hybrids: Turbo Spin-Echo Imaging -- 20. Echo-Planar Imaging-Hybrids: Gradient and Spin-Echo (GRASE) Imaging -- 21. Spiral Echo-Planar Imaging

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