Primer of Diagnostic Imaging

1. Chest Imaging 2. Cardiac Imaging 3. Gastrointestinal Imaging 4. Genitourinary Imaging 5. Musculoskeletal Imaging 6. Neurologic Imaging 7. Head and Neck Imaging 8. Vascular Imaging 9. Breast Imaging 10. Obstetric Imaging 11. Pediatric Imaging 12. Nuclear Imaging 13. Contrast Agents 14. Imaging Physics (CD-ROM) PHYSICS OF A SINGLE DIPOLE 1. Introduction 2. Dipoles and magnetic fields 3. Rotating Dipole 4. Introduction to Spin Flip 5. 90 Degree Spin Flip 6. 180 Degree Spin Flip 7. Rotating Coordinate System 8. Introduction to Relaxation PHYSICS OF MULTIPLE DIPOLES 9. Spin-lattice Relaxation (T1) 10. Spin-spin Dephasing & Relaxation (T2) 11. Field Inhomogeneity relaxation (T2*) 12. T1 and T2 Relaxation 13. Spin Echo 14. Gradient Echo FORMING AN IMAGE 15. Slice Selection 16. Frequency Encoding Concept 17. Phase Encoding Concept 18. Frequency Encoding 1D Example 19. Phase Encoding 1D Example 20. 2D Image Acquisition Example 21. Introduction to k-space IMAGE CHARACTERISTICS 22. Effect of repeated excitations 23. T1 weighting 24. T2 weighting 25. Diffusion weighting 26. Rapid Imaging 27. Small Flip Angle 28. Short Tau Inversion Recovery (STIR)