Contemporary MR: Pushing the Limits by Joel R. Garbow, Biomedical MR Laboratory, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Learning Objectives:
• Understand the importance of contrast in MR imaging
• Describe T1, T2, and T2* relaxation phenomena and how they are measured
• Understand relaxation as a source of image contrast
• Understand the role of magnetization exchange in relaxation and as a source of contrast (MT)
• Describe more technically advanced, endogenous-contrast experiments (diffusion, per fusion, flow, BOLD, CEST)
• Describe the role of exogenous contrast agents
• Describe more technically advanced, exogenous-contrast experiments (DCE, DSC, ParaCEST)
