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The phenomenon of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) was discovered and studied in the 1950s of the twentieth century. Two groups of British physicists under the leadership of Bloch and Pursell determined physical and chemical factors, such as proton density and the so-called relaxation parameters, times of longitudinal (T1) and transverse (T2) substance relaxation, on which the value of the detected MR signal depended. Hahn (1950) developed an in vitro method for measuring the substance relaxation parameters using a sequence of radio pulses, called a pulse sequence (PS) “spin echo” (SE) (Hahn 1950; Bloch and Pursell 1952).

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