A flow velocity zeugmatographic interlace for NMR imaging in humans

doi:10.1016/0730-725X(82)90170-9

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volume 1, Issue 4, 1982, Pages 197-203

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Abstract

We describe a flow sensitizing zeugmatographic phase-modulation interlace for NMR-imaging which is exactly analogous to Lauterbur's spatial-location-sensitizing magnetic field gradients. The method may be implemented by minor modification of any NMR-imaging scanner without interfering with its conventional operation, and enables up to 6-D imaging of the joint (spatial-flow) density of spins $Δ (r, v)$ . In a special simplification, specific-flow-density, $〈v(r)〉$ , and flow-current-specific-flow-density, $ϱ_{0} (r)〈 v 〉$ , derive directly from “real” and “imaginary” parts of the image reconstruction.

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