Neuroradiology physics review – 2 – Magnetic Resonance Imaging
It’s important for the neuroradiologist to have a basic grasp of physics, particularly in the ways that it may affect image quality. In this video, Dr. Michael Hoch goes through a series of 13 MRI cases on physics. Each case is followed by one or more multiple choice questions about that physics principle.
There are a number of ways that physics principles affect MR images, causing various types of suboptimal images, such as:
- metallic artifacts – areas of signal loss around susceptibility created by metal
- fat suppression artifacts – areas where fat is incompletely saturated, particularly at the edge of images or adjacent to metal
- aliasing – where one part of the image is incorrectly mapped to another area due to improper field of view
- staircase – motion between slices leading to step offs in reconstructed images
- chemical shift artifact – when a substance such as fat has a different resonance frequency and maps elsewhere into an image
- zipper/spike artifact – when an external source of frequency noise is mapped into the image domain
Other key principles discussed include:
- how artifacts may help you make a diagnosis
- differences in how artifacts may appear on different types of images
- how to change sequences to mitigate artifact
The level of this lecture is appropriate for radiology residents, radiology fellows, and trainees in other specialties who would like to review radiology physics. This may be particularly useful when preparing for the American Board of Radiology (ABR) core and certifying exams.
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