Master's Thesis - Studierstube Augmented Reality Project - Graz ...

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3.5 The slice-profile depends on the RF-excitation pulse and the slope of the
slice selection gradient. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
3.6 FLASH pulse-sequence diagram. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
3.7 The process from the object to the MRI image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
3.8 MRI contrast mechanisms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
3.9 Triggered retrospective data acquisition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
3.10 ECG gating submission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
3.11 A typical body coil for thorax parallel image acquisition. . . . . . . . . . 55
3.12 Comparing flow-compensated and flow-sensitive measurement. . . . . . . 56
3.13 Flow sensitive measurement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
3.14 Computing the complex difference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
3.15 Comparison of a rephased image, phase encoded for v enc > v(x max ) and
v enc