Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Flashcards
What does NMR stand for?
What happens?
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Nucleus and Electrons remain unchanged in NMR
–> no radioactive (ionizing) radiation
–> no chemical reaction
What are different MR imaging and Spectroscopy techniques?
Single Vocel NMR ~16kb (one image)
2D Spectroscopic Imaging ~16MB (32x32 images)
3D SI ~512MB (32x32x32 images)
3D MRSI + multiarray coils ~4GB (8 coilsx512MB)
What properties does the nucleus have?
Spin (angular moment)
Magnetic moment
What are the basic principles of NRM?
Magnetic field gradients to obtain spatial information
Nuclear spin
Magnetic dipole moment
Chemical Shift:
- Different electronic surroundings
- Different magnetic shielding electronic clouds induce a magnetic moment opposed to the static field
- At the nucleus the magnetic field is slightly different from B0
- Resonance frequency
How is a voxel selected?
Selcetion of three Orientations:
- Phase- Direction
- READ - Direction
- SLICE selection
What can in vivo metabolic imaging be used for?
Thousands of studies:
Epilepsy, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer, Dementia, Oncology, Parkinson, AIDS, etc.
What types of Image Contrasts are there?
Proton-Density
T2-Weighting: Transverse Relaxation T2
T1-Weighting: Longitudial Relaxation T1
Diffustion
Flow
BOLD
What is fMRI?
+ Examples
functional-MRI
Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent MRI (BOLD):
To measure brain activation
Motor Stimulation
What is MR Angiography?
Visualize Blood vessels
What is the dixon techique?
Compare Fat & water images
What are the potential risks of MRI?
Metal, pacemaker, heating
But no radiation
What is the basic principle of 1D 1H-NMR?
- All protons in a molecule yield a peak
- Position depends on electronic surroundings of the proton
- Intensity / Area depends on:
- number of contributing protons
- concentration
–> Can be used to distinguish different functional groups in a molecule
What is T2?
Transverse Relaxation
Signal intensity decreases exponentially over time
Show contrast over Echotime TE
Different images between long and short TE
What is T1?
Longitudinal Relaxation
Signal incerases exponentially over time
Show contrast over repetitiontime TR
What is done in a targeted analysis?
Deconvolution:
- Metabolic profiling
- Identification / quantification
Fitting:
Position, Intensity, Linewidth, (Phase)