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Basic Principles of NMR Imaging

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Physics and Engineering of Medical Imaging

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NSSE,volume 119))

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Abstract

NMR spectroscopy has been used since 1946 in the study of condensed matter. In recent years it has also been applied to research in fields related to medicine. The main applications are NMR Imaging and NMR High Resolution “in vivo” spectroscopy. In this paper we will be concerned only with the first topic. An immediate comparison with traditional radiography allows one to see the initial difference between the two techniques: whilst X-ray images are simply absorption maps of the system under examination, so that they can show only the electron density of the sample, an NMR image includes, besides the morphology of the body, chemical and physiological information.

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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita’ di Roma “La Sapienza”, 00185, Roma, Italy

    R. Campanella, C. Casieri, F. De Luca, B. C. De Simone & B. Maraviglia

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  1. Nuclear Imaging Division, C.N.R., Institute of Clinical Physiology, Via P. Savi, 8, 56100, Pisa, Italy

    Riccardo Guzzardi (Head) (Head)

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Campanella, R., Casieri, C., De Luca, F., De Simone, B.C., Maraviglia, B. (1987). Basic Principles of NMR Imaging. In: Guzzardi, R. (eds) Physics and Engineering of Medical Imaging. NATO ASI Series, vol 119. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3537-2_35

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