This is the second of two articles on MRI physics. In this article I discuss what a class of physics students might expect to see and learn from a field trip to a full-scale MRI. Magnetic resonance imaging is not only becoming a more common medical diagnostic tool—it is now a more common research tool. Being such an important application of physics, many universities have their own MRI for their medical physics programs.
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Radiopaedia also tags links on MRI pulse sequences, parameters, and protocols in the following article:
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,” Radiopaedia
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An excellent PowerPoint on MRI safety is
Charlie
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This article continues under the Supplemental tab at TPT Online, http://dxreee.doi.org/10.1119/1.5051167 E-PHTEAH-56-031806.
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