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Image formation 2: Basic Pulse Sequence Flashcards

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1
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What is it difficult to reconstruct?

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Artefact free images from projections

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What is technically difficult to measure?

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MR signal immediately after a 90 degree pulse

- can be overcome by collecting a spine echo (SE)

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What is pulse sequence?

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Succession of commands that the computer gives the scanner to obtain desired signal, hence image

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What is spin echo?

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Regeneration of spin phase information apparently lost during decay of FID
– Insensitive to magnetic field B0 inhomogeneity, but longer scan times

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What is Gradient echo?

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  1. Applying external dephasing gradient field across the specimen or tissue
    - calibrated change in local magnetic field and hence alter resonance frequencies slightly across the specimen
    - Accelerated dephasing of FID
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What is the first step in the formation of a spin echo?

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90˚ pulse is applied along +x’ which rotates the longitudinal magnetization MS into the transverse plane along y’ axis

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What is the second step in the formation of a spin echo?

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180˚ RF pulse is applied again along the postive x’ axis

-This reverses the direction of the magnetisation so now it is along the -y’ axis

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What is the third step in the formation of a spin echo?

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The spins continue to move in the same direction as they were travelling before the 180˚ pulse

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What is the fourth step in the formation of a spin echo?

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There is a time point (the ‘spin echo’) where the isochromats rephase and the magnetisation of the entire spin ensemble reaches a maximum again

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What is the fifth step in the formation of a spin echo?

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The centre of the spin echo (where the signal will reach a maximum) occurs at a time referred to as the “echo time” or TE of the sequence – The sampling or acquisition window will be centred around this time point • Finally the isochromats begin to dephase again

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What happens after the spin . echo has formed?

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The magnetisation will continue to precess and therefore dephase

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What is the basis of spin echo Imaging?

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Combining the effect of a field gradient (to localise the signal) with the concept of refocusing transverse magnetisation

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What is Spin Echo?

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Add another pulse to generate an ‘‘echo’’ that occurs later in time and happens to reverse the T2* effects to leave us with T2 only

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Why do we rotate the protons with a 180-degree pulse?

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They continue precessing in the same direction but will refocus along the -y axis

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What is the spin dephasing effect due to?

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Dispersion in the resonance frequency produced

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What is the rephase lobe on the gradient needed?

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Counteract the dephasing of spins during the application of pulse

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What is the k-space sampling?

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  1. Apply a 90 degree RF pulse (produces an FID)
  2. Apply large, negative phase encode gradient along y direction
  3. Apply a positive dephase gradient along the x axis
  4. At a time TE/2 after the 90 degree pulse w eapply a 180 degree pulse
  5. Apply a readout gradient and start measuring the echo signal
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18
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What will produce different degrees of contrast between tissues?

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Different combinations of TR and TE

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19
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What will changing TR change the contrast between?

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Tissues with different T1 relaxation times

20
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What will changing TE change the contrast between?

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Tissues with different T2 values

21
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What does T1 weighting have?

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  1. Short TE
  2. Short TR
    - PD weighting
22
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What does T2 have?

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  1. Long TE
  2. long TR
    - PD weighting aswell
23
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What generally produces no signal?

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  1. Long TE

2. Short TR

24
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What does fluids have?

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  1. Long T1

2. Long T2

25
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What does water-vased tissues have?

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  1. Mid-range T1

2. Short T2

26
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What does Fat-based tissue have?

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  1. Short T1

2. Short T2

27
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What happens in PD-weighted images?

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Tissues with highest PD are brighter

28
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What happens in T2-weighted images?

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Tissues with longest T2 are brighter

-Takes longer for transverse magnetisation to decay

29
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What happens in T1-weighted imageS?

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Tissues with longest T1 are darker

-Takes longer for longitudinal magnetisation to recover

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What are the spin echo tissue signal intensity?

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•	Short TE
-	Grey matter is white 
-	White matter is darker
-	CSF bright 
-	The contrast is from PD
•	Longer TE
-	GM still white
-	WM is still darker
-	Contrast greater than short TE 
-	CSF is very bright 
-	The contrast is from PD and T2

• A very long TE

  • WM and GM are black
  • Only CSF remains
31
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What is Dual echo sequence?

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Include images with different weightings and/or echo times and are used to obtain both proton density and T2 weighted images without increasing the measurement time

32
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What do different compartment in tissues have?

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Different relaxation characteristics

33
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What can be detected by fitting the transverse magnetisation decay curve (TMDC)?

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Multi-exponential relaxation

34
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How is a gradient echo formed?

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First dephasing and subsequently rephasing the FID so that all isochromat magnetisation vectors are back in phase with one another at the centre of gradient echo

35
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Where does the gradient echo occur at?

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the point in time where the net phase is zero, i.e. the amount of dephasing is equal to the amount of rephasing – Signal reaches a maximum at the gradient echo

36
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What is gradient echo signal?

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T2* dependent

There is no 180 degree pulse to refocus the dephasing of isochromat due to B0 field inhomogeneities

37
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What is the first step in the formation of a gradient echo?

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90° pulse is applied and isochromats are tipped into the transverse plane

38
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What is the second step in the formation of a gradient echo?

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Dephasing gradient is applied and the isochromat dephase as a result of this grafient

39
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What is the third step in the formation of a gradient echo?

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Equal and opposite gradient is applied (a rephasing gradient)
-isochromat phases are reversed and a gradient echo is formed at the point in time where the amounts of rephasing and dephasing by gradients are exactly equal

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What does T2* describe?

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Total transverse relaxation due to both spin-spin interaction and B0 field inhomogeneities

41
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What does magnet homogeneity directly relate to?

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Image quality and various artefacts

42
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What are the types of problem associated with poor magnet homogeneity?

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  • Shading
  • Spatial distortion
  • Blurring
  • Intensity loss
  • Curved slice profiles
  • Zebra banding artefacts
43
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What is inversion recovery pulse sequence?

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spin echo pulse sequence preceded by a 180° RF pulse

44
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What does the Inversion recovery pulse sequence do?

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inverts longitudinal magnetisation (Mz), namely, it flips Mz to its negative value, -Mz.Tissues regain Mz at different longitudinal (T1) relaxation rates determined by their T1 relaxation times

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What are the Inversion recovery contrast?

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  1. Short T1
    - GM is white
    - WM is darker
    - contrast: T1 and PD
  2. Longer T1
    - WM is white
    - GM is darker
  3. Longer still T1
    - WM and GM are iso-intense
  4. Very long T1
    - GM is white
    - WM darker
    - contrast: mainly due to PD

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