摘要:
A method of measuring a static magnetic field distribution in a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) inspection system which comprises magnetic field generator for producing a static magnetic field, inclination or gradient magnetic fields and a high-frequency magnetic field, a signal detector for sensing nuclear magnetic resonance signals from an inspection sample, a computer for processing output signals from the signal detector and an output device for providing a computational result of the computer, wherein a time interval t.sub.1 from the center of a 90.degree.-pulse high-frequency magnetic field to the center of a 180.degree.-pulse high-frequency magnetic field is made different by a time difference t.sub.0 from a time interval t.sub.2 from the center of the 180.degree.-pulse high-frequency magnetic field to a peak of a spin echo, so that static magnetic field distribution is calculated based on the computer output which corresponds to the difference of the two time intervals.
摘要:
An NMR imaging method which provides a three-dimensional image representative of the two-dimensional distribution of nuclear spin species resolved by chemical shift or the local spectra resolved by two-dimensional location. After the excitation of nuclear spins and the phase-encoding by application of a field gradient G.sub.y, a periodically inverting field gradient G.sub.x is generated to yield a continuous echo train. The echo train is sampled and separated into data of odd-numbered echoes and data of even-numbered echoes which data are in turn reconstructed into two-dimensional data arrays, respectively. The data thus reconstructed are three-dimensional Fourier-transformed.
摘要:
A method wherein the requirement for the amplitude of the oscillating gradient magnetic field is relaxed by reconstructing an image while using simultaneously echoes S.sub.p (k.sub.x, y) produced in the case where the positive oscillating gradient magnetic field is applied to the object to be tested and echoes S.sub.N (k.sub.x, y) produced in the case where the negative is applied thereto, i.e. by using data points on segments of a trajectory of data points ascending from left to right in the spatial frequency domain and those on segments of a trajectory of data points ascending from right to left. That is, the image M(x, y) is obtained by Fourier-transforming at first the echoes S.sub.p (k.sub.x, k.sub.y) and S.sub.N (k.sub.x, k.sub.y) with respect to k.sub.y, multiplying complex numbers a.sub.1 and a.sub.2 to g.sub.p (k.sub.x, y) and g.sub.N (k.sub.x, y) obtained by this transformation; adding the results thus obtained, i.e. forming g(k.sub.x, y)=a.sub.1 g.sub.p (k.sub.x, y)+a.sub.2 g.sub.N (k.sub.x, y); and finally Fourier-transforming this g(k.sub.x, y) with respect to k.sub.x.
摘要:
An NMR spectroscopic imaging method of obtaining separate spin distribution images for respective spectral components of the spectrum of an NMR signal caused by the chemical shift of nuclides of interest in an object includes providing for a transversal magnetization signal of the object placed in a static magnetic field. A position of the signal in a phase domain is translated in a K-space from the origin thereof. Further, the signal is sampled while rotating a position of the signal in the K-space plural times on a certain circle in the K-space by applying a rotating field gradient, thereby to obtain a group of signal data. Signal data trains each of which is composed of signal data present at the same position on the K-space in the signal data group obtained by the sampling during the plural signal rotations, is subjected to Fourier transformations, respectively, thereby effecting a spectral analysis of the NMR signal.
摘要:
In imaging methods represented by the echo-planar method, i.e., in a method including a step of measuring the spin echos while applying a fixed gradient magnetic field to an object and applying a gradient field G.sub.Y periodically inverted in sense to the object and a step of obtaining the spin distribution image in the spatial domain by applying two-dimensional Fourier transform to the measured data, measurement is repeated a plurality of times while altering the phase of the applied waveform of G.sub.X, and the spin density image is derived by applying two-dimensional Fourier transform to a plurality of sets of data groups thus obtained.
摘要:
An NMR imaging method using a rotating field gradient is disclosed in which transverse magnetization is prepared in a portion of an object to be inspected, by the 90.degree.-180.degree. RF pulse excitation, a rotating field gradient is generated to perform a sampling operation for an output signal in a state that the position of signal in a phase space is revolved, the intensity or rotational speed of the rotating field gradient is varied stepwise or continuously to obtain data arranged on concentric circles or a spiral in the phase space, and the data thus obtained undergoes Fourier transformation in each of a plurality of radial directions or two-dimensional Fourier transformation, to form an image of spin distribution.
摘要:
The present invention is an imaging method using three-dimensional NMR to which an echo-planar method is applied. After excitation of nuclear spins, the gradient magnetic field Gx for phase-encoding is applied and there is repeated a sequence of measuring and obtaining an echo train of spin-echoes with a constant gradient magnetic field Gx and a periodically-inverted gradient magnetic field Gy, as varying the amount of encoding, so as to obtain the three-dimensional imaging by the Fourier-conversion. Moreover, after the selective excitation of spins within an X-Y surface, a 180.degree. radio frequency pulse is applied. As varying the time difference .tau..sub..epsilon. between the interval from the excitation until the application of the 180.degree. radio frequency pulse and the interval from the application thereof until a peak of a first echo of an echo train, three-dimensional imaging is carried out with a chemical shift axis as one axis by repeating the sequence and accomplishing Fourier-conversion with .tau..sub..epsilon. as a numerical variable.
摘要:
An imaging apparatus using nuclear magnetic resonance is disclosed in which both an image corresponding to the projection of a nuclear spin distribution in a to-be-inspected object on a two-dimensional plane and a display mark indicating a desired measuring position are displayed on a display face of a display device such as a CRT display, the display mark is freely moved on the display face to be set at a desired position on the display face, and magnetic field generating means for generating a static magnetic field, linear gradient field, or radio frequency magnetic field is controlled on the basis of the desired position of the display mark to obtain an image of that cross section of the object which is located at a position indicated by the display mark.
摘要:
In an imaging apparatus using nuclear magnetic resonance which includes apparatus for generating a static magnetic field, a linear gradient magnetic field and a radio frequency magnetic field, respectively, signal detection device for detecting the nuclear magnetic resonant signal from an object to be inspected, a computer for calculating from the detection signal an image and output device for displaying the result of calculation by the computer, the improvement wherein the size of the object to be inspected is detected by use of ultrasonic wave or light beams and a signal indicative of the detected size of the object is applied to the linear gradient magnetic field generation apparatus so as to control the intensity of the linear gradient magnetic field.
摘要:
A radiation-image photographing apparatus comprises a radiation source, a radiation detector disposed in opposition to the radiation source for detecting radiation through an object to be examined and to generate an electrical signal proportional to the amount of incident radiation, a scanning device for changing the relative, positional relationship between the radiation source and the radiation detector, an analog-to-digital converter for converting the output signal from the radiation detector to a digital quantity, a memory for storing the digital signal, an arithmetic unit, and a display unit. A plurality of measurements of a two-dimensional radiation absorption distribution of the object disposed between the radiation source and the radiation detector is obtained while the relative positional relationship between the radiation source and the radiation detector is being changed, and a linear arithmetic operation is performed on the plurality of image measurements, or a set of data passing a point within the object to be photographed, thereby displaying a cross-sectional image on a given cross-section approximately parallel to the radiation detector plane within the object to be examined.