I BASIC CONCEPTS
Mathematical Tools
Frequency Encoding and Fourier Transform
FT Properties
Sampling, Interpolation, and Aliasing
Instruments for Image Analysis
MRI: Conventional Imaging Techniques and Instruments
Magnetic Resonance Phenomenon
Imaging Gradients
Conventional Imaging Techniques
Bandwidth, Sampling, Resolution, and Sensitivity
An MRI Scanner
Bloch Equations and Numerical MRI Simulators
II LIMITATIONS OF CONVENTIONAL MRI
Limiting Artifacts for Advanced Applications
Motion
Undersampling
Summary
III ADVANCED SOLUTIONS
Methods for Magnetic Field Inhomogeneity Reduction
Conventional Methods
An Unconventional Solution
Summary
Methods to Handle Undersampling
Sparse Methods without Restoration
Sparse Methods with Restoration
Summary
IV THE FUTURE
Conclusions and perspectives
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Giuseppe Placidi is an assistant professor in Computer Science in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of L’Aquila. He has authored or co-authored more than 55 papers published in international scientific journals and books, 60 refereed conferences proceedings, and seven patents. He is a member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, the IEEE Computer Society, the Italian Group for Electron Spin Resonance (GIRSE), and the Italian Group for Physics of Matter (INFM). Dr. Placidi is also a reviewer for several scientific journals on medical physics and imaging. His research interests include MRI, MRI acquisition sequences, image reconstruction, image analysis, image compression, and information theory.
For more information, see www.giuseppeplacidi.org.
"MRI Essentials for Innovative Technologies describes novel methods to improve MRI beyond its current limitations and combines rigorous development of mathematical concepts with descriptive presentations of the emerging MRI techniques. …Although this book covers a specialized area of MRI and the emerging technologies around this imaging modality, the text is comprehensible to most readers."
—IEEE Pulse Magazine, April 2014"The deep physical insight into the relationship between spin dynamics and gradient field modulation expressed in this book paves the way to a completely new family of pulse sequences that may represent a new line of development for MRI. As a whole, this excellent book should be found on the bookshelves of all those specializing in the field of magnetic resonance."
—From the Foreword by Antonello Sotgiu, Professor and Chairman, Department of Health Sciences, University of L'Aquila, Italy"[This book] is complete, readable and usable both for research and for specialized learning purposes in areas of advanced MRI imaging techniques. Dr. Placidi indicates a path useful to both physicists and engineers for implementation, and to radiologists and clinicians in thinking of possible new ways to apply the suggested methods."
—From the Foreword by Roberto Passariello, MD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Radiological Sciences, Policlinico Umberto I, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
