After successful completion of the course the students should be able to
- describe in detail the mechanisms of nuclear magnetic resonance and explain how it can be used to form the basis for the MRI signal.
- explain the imaging process of MRI, from spin excitation to slice selection to phase and frequency encoding.
- design and draw sequence diagrams to achieve a given imaging scheme.
- compute gradient amplitudes and times for a given sampling of k-space.
- describe which basic image artifacts that are associated with MRI and, if possible, how they can be avoided when designing imaging sequences.
- select a basic imaging sequence and compute adequate parameters to achieve a desired contrast between tissues of given material parameters.