2017 Imaging for Physicists Coursebook

• Bloch’s equations expanded with relaxation components; M xy /T2* and (M z -M 0 )/T1 • May be shown that: Relaxation dynamics

  

) e1(M)t(M 1T/t T1=300ms

z

0

1 T t

    z,

M63.0 M

z

T2*=100ms

*2T/t eM)t(M 



xy

0,xy

T2

T2*

xy,0 M37.0 M *2T t    xy