1. The Basics. 2. Magnetic Field Generation. 3. Radiofrequency transmit/receive, parallel imaging and X-nuclei 4. Pulse sequences and image reconstruction. 5. Applications. 6. High and low field and hybrid MRI. 7. Conclusions. Appendix A: Essential quantum mechanics. Appendix B: Laplace’s equation in polar coordinates. Appendix C: The birdcage coil. Appendix D: Fourier transforms. Appendix E: Multiple echoes. Appendix F: AI and MRI. Index.
Biography
Richard Ansorge is a retired senior lecturer at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, and a former fellow and tutor of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He has extensive experience in experimental high-energy physics, and has contributed to the CERN UA5 experiment on the proton–antiproton collider in the 1980s. More recently, he has collaborated with research groups on the Cambridge Biomedical campus in several areas including improving 3D medical imaging methods, such as MRI and positron emission tomography (PET). He is the author of more than 150 scientific publications in these fields and the book Programming in Parallel with CUDA (2022).
Martin J. Graves is Professor of Magnetic Resonance Physics at the University of Cambridge and Honorary Consultant Clinical Scientist at Cambridge University Hospitals. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM), a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Senior Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), an Honorary Member of the Royal College of Radiologists, a Fellow of the British Institute of Radiology and a member of the International Society for Strategic Studies in Radiology (IS3R). He has served on several national and international committees for the British Institute of Radiology, ISMRM and European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology. With more than 40 years’ experience in both clinical and research MRI, he has published over 200 articles on a range of MRI topics.
