Introduction to Clinical MRI Physics (part 1 of 3)

Intended audience: radiology residents and fellows, medical students, or anyone who is interested in learning basic MRI physics conceptually. No complex equations or formulas. It is also helpful for those who are seeking the cure to their insomnia.
---- Contents ----
0:00 - Intro
3:06 - Basic definitions
5:35 - MR active atoms
7:23 - Hydrogen proton / spin
9:09 - Larmor frequency and equation
11:19 - Longitudinal and transverse magnetization
12:57 - Resonance
14:33 - Longitudinal relaxation and T1 relaxation time
19:39 - Transverse relaxation and T2 relaxation time
22:52 - T2*, echo, and Spin Echo technique
32:27 - T1 and T2 weighted imaging

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  • @user-he8ew8rd1b
    @user-he8ew8rd1b Жыл бұрын

    this is the best mri physics lecture i have stomped upon i had to leave a comment after the random question cause it just reminded me that i watched 13ish minutes without realizing

  • @sagarwagle1
    @sagarwagle12 жыл бұрын

    I am a third-year radiology resident preparing for the core exam now. This is the best physics lecture on MRI that I have seen. I have learned more from your lectures than from reading the war machine chapter. I would love to see more videos from you.

  • @neuroradish

    @neuroradish

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's great to hear, thanks. This hobby site started with me finding a place to store lectures for my residents, but happy to know it's also helping residents elsewhere. Best luck on core exam, and you're almost there! Let me know if you guys have any neuro Q's.

  • @tylerhepler9396

    @tylerhepler9396

    Жыл бұрын

    wait, your technologist that do your exam knows more physics than you?

  • @dantheman9381

    @dantheman9381

    Жыл бұрын

    @@neuroradish Your Videos helped me so much!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much

  • @lavernesims3070
    @lavernesims307010 ай бұрын

    I looked at all 3 parts I’m a MRI Technologist of 17 years, just looking for refresh the basics. Thank you great lecture well explained.

  • @kemmy781
    @kemmy7813 жыл бұрын

    This is such a great lecture - equivalent to reading numerous textbooks. Thank you so much for posting it!

  • @oxtim394
    @oxtim3942 жыл бұрын

    I'm a nuclear tech starting MRI cross-training. I'm left to teach myself the physics and this video has helped a ton. Thank you

  • @mancubzavala865289
    @mancubzavala865289 Жыл бұрын

    This has to be the best explanation of MRI physics on YT. Thank you!

  • @melisahensley7962

    @melisahensley7962

    Жыл бұрын

    I TOTALLY AGREE!! I've seen several videos trying to explain this and by far, this is the BEST explanation!!! There is light at the end of the tunnel for me!!

  • @LisabonMusic
    @LisabonMusic Жыл бұрын

    The Kennedy thing you did should be an example in every textbook on the topic: how to make students remember numbers

  • @antoine_vienna
    @antoine_vienna2 жыл бұрын

    I never write comments. But this is literally the best MRI lecture on KZread. Thank you so much.

  • @playboy4

    @playboy4

    2 жыл бұрын

    It is the best out there , have looked a lot nothing informative like this one

  • @eltiarribero
    @eltiarribero3 жыл бұрын

    Mri Technologist here for 20 years. I've seen lots of videos TRYING to simplify Mri Physics. This is by far the best of them all. R u sure you're a Radiologist, and not a Physics Professor? 😜Just kidding. Excellent video. Thanks.

  • @neuroradish

    @neuroradish

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ha ha, I wish I'm smart enough to be a physicist; just try to learn it to better my clinical understanding. I'm allergic to complex equations. :) I'm glad it helps. Thanks.

  • @ronmays3166

    @ronmays3166

    2 жыл бұрын

    20 years ,love it ?

  • @anniekhan2218
    @anniekhan2218 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for this. I was just not getting the physics part in mri. You made it so easy to understand. God bless ❤

  • @tigerheaddude
    @tigerheaddude2 жыл бұрын

    This has been the best source on MRI physics so far. Thank you!

  • @marinamartin3373
    @marinamartin33732 жыл бұрын

    This was great. I am working on my thesis and was having a hard time understanding how MRI works. This video was exactly what I needed.

  • @elliot111
    @elliot111 Жыл бұрын

    literally the most clear explanation of MRI physics on YT! Thank you for your great video!

  • @ivo3185
    @ivo31852 жыл бұрын

    Spectacular. Thank you!

  • @brendanforrest598
    @brendanforrest5982 жыл бұрын

    Best explanation of MRI I have found. Thanks.

  • @harris4917
    @harris49172 жыл бұрын

    Best MRI physics EVER. You should expand the topics and build on those videos as is the best attempt to explain a rather complex topic that stops thousands of doctors to understand better that modality.

  • @kirenash6973
    @kirenash69732 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for uploading!

  • @fdoenglish4745
    @fdoenglish47452 жыл бұрын

    Omg 😱 it's the best introduction that I ever see about this topic. Thx so much.

  • @saanihashmi214
    @saanihashmi2142 жыл бұрын

    The best video for MRI learners.... 10/10....

  • @naveenkumar_
    @naveenkumar_2 жыл бұрын

    Amazing lecture! Thank you very much

  • @gagnon124
    @gagnon1243 жыл бұрын

    great video ! Very useful

  • @NikonBirder
    @NikonBirder5 ай бұрын

    Crisp & to the point. Excellent

  • @NAV866
    @NAV866 Жыл бұрын

    Great lection. Thank you

  • @aphonixbella2381
    @aphonixbella23819 ай бұрын

    you make MRI physics a lot easier to understand. thank you for making this great video! Uni textbooks explanation makes me cry. your explanation makes me cry in joy. 😅

  • @niccomlaja1853
    @niccomlaja18532 жыл бұрын

    its a very good more than books for sure

  • @ethiopiawit18
    @ethiopiawit18 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this amazing video! I can finally understand this topic

  • @bamideleotemuyiwa5136
    @bamideleotemuyiwa5136 Жыл бұрын

    This is an absolutely fantastic introduction to MR. Easy to understand and clinically relevant. Wish I would have come across it during my core review a few months ago.

  • @kayhan1359
    @kayhan13594 ай бұрын

    Excellent lecture! Hands down and this is coming from a Prof! you nailed it.

  • @mikimauseontheway
    @mikimauseontheway2 жыл бұрын

    how a super and super well explained video... I think its the BEST ONE .. Thank you a lot for the animations and well explaination...

  • @adibasistudypoint981
    @adibasistudypoint9812 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for posting such lectures

  • @attheajanelepiten5422
    @attheajanelepiten54223 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this!

  • @eduardolazaga1348
    @eduardolazaga13483 жыл бұрын

    Great explanation👌

  • @jacobvandijk6525
    @jacobvandijk65252 жыл бұрын

    Man, what a beautiful video! Perhaps a bit fast for those who have not seen the subject before. But the visualization is wonderful. Top job!

  • @alelabrar4815
    @alelabrar48153 жыл бұрын

    Simply wonderful!

  • @surendrayadav3332

    @surendrayadav3332

    3 жыл бұрын

    Excellent, thanks

  • @maheshwaran363
    @maheshwaran363 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome lecture, pls continue your videos with mri

  • @Thenihar1111
    @Thenihar11112 жыл бұрын

    fantastic lecture

  • @playboy4
    @playboy42 жыл бұрын

    Bro you should go teach masters for radiology, impressive explanation, thank you so much !

  • @iiSu97
    @iiSu972 жыл бұрын

    That was very helpful thank u ❤️❤️

  • @rexroy5669
    @rexroy56692 жыл бұрын

    Please do similar basic videos on Ultrasound, CT scan physics and Gamma imaging. Muchh needed. Thanks:)

  • @snehalhiwale6926
    @snehalhiwale692610 ай бұрын

    Sir plz post more videos on mri physics this one is awesome…

  • @strawberrycheesecake7912
    @strawberrycheesecake79122 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant

  • @user-dz4iv5it3s
    @user-dz4iv5it3s6 ай бұрын

    Thank you very much

  • @JayRileyArgue
    @JayRileyArgue3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @deepsudeep
    @deepsudeep Жыл бұрын

    Very nice overall presentation. TR introduction was a bit lacking

  • @tanveeratanveera2494
    @tanveeratanveera24943 жыл бұрын

    Thanku so much

  • @dr.aimanmukhtar2171
    @dr.aimanmukhtar2171 Жыл бұрын

    best lecture

  • @DrRad-mp2xq
    @DrRad-mp2xq2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much Sir. is it possible to share the power point file of the lecture??

  • @billyidolman4666
    @billyidolman46666 ай бұрын

    Does the external magnetic field influence the spin as well as the precession or just the precession? I guess my question is, is spin influenced by this process or is this just an unchanging quality of the atom?

  • @Gragon
    @Gragon2 жыл бұрын

    34:15 Isnt the X axis - time? As if when do we acquire the signal and not give the 90 degree pulse? Shoudlnt it be Te (or time of acquisition) and not Tr. in your explanation? In my understanding the difference in contrast of T1 relaxation with short TR should be explained by relative short horizontal magnetization vector of water in contrast with longer vector of fat after the second 90 degree pulse. With short Tr more water protons become higher energy state than fat protons, thus the net transvese magnetization is lower of water than of fat, and thus the signal that we measure at point of echo will be stronger of fat than of water. With increasing TR (time of second 90 degree pulse) the difference between horizontal magnetization dicreases and thats why we loose contrast.

  • @billyidolman4666
    @billyidolman46666 ай бұрын

    In your demonstration showing different contrasts between fat and CSF along their respective T1 recovery curves (graph at roughly 33:47), I am confused as to why you say the signal is strongest when the contrast is smallest considering both have regained most of their longitudinal magnetization by then? I thought signal was strongest when in the transverse plane? Is it just that T1 increases over time and that T2 decreases? Maybe thats why Im getting confused?

  • @ahmetozdemir7173
    @ahmetozdemir71732 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for video. definitely, "I wanted to ask something; In a magnetic field where no external pulse signal is applied, would a proton making a precession spin at the larmor frequency send out electromagnetic waves?" I was just going to ask; however, I saw that you explained this very clearly in your video. You really explained it very clearly. Thank you.

  • @neuroradish

    @neuroradish

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks. I'm glad it's helpful. I assume a proton precessing at larmor frequency would produce EM waves but negligible for clinical MRI.

  • @ahmetozdemir7173

    @ahmetozdemir7173

    Жыл бұрын

    @@neuroradish thanks a lot.

  • @ahmetozdemir7173

    @ahmetozdemir7173

    Жыл бұрын

    @@neuroradish Thank you for your answer that got me excited. Can you unpack your thoughts on this matter? This could be the beginning of a research for me.

  • @neuroradish

    @neuroradish

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ahmetozdemir7173 I'm afraid it's beyond the scope of my understanding. At the end of the day, I'm just trying to simplify a complex subject such as MRI physics for my day-to-day clinical practice.

  • @borisbecker541
    @borisbecker541 Жыл бұрын

    I got some question: if I have well understood, both T1 and T2 'come from' the same phenomena, which is having the RF pulse taken away. In the T1 case we have how fast longitudinal magnetisation recover its 63%, in T2 we have how fast spins are losing their 37% of phase (than lose the trasversal magnetisation). They're even influenced by each other, as you say rightly that you put, for instance, a long TR in a T2 weighted image not to have the T1 'contribution' in it. 1) why can't I acquire both the two weighted images with only one scan as both need the RF to be ruled out? 2) in my RMN I usually work on the TE is fixed and I can only change the TR, regardless is a T1 or a T2. Why is that? 3) if I want to get more images out of a certain scan the only thing I can do is get an higher TR. Why is that? What does the TR have to do with the amount of images you can get out of a scan? Thanks

  • @SnakeyJakob
    @SnakeyJakob Жыл бұрын

    The precession axis is perpendicular to the z axis. After the 90 degree RF pulse, the protons are flipped to the x axis. Wouldn’t the precession plane now be perpendicular to the x axis?

  • @isaacmwiti9756
    @isaacmwiti9756 Жыл бұрын

    When we say introduce an 90° RF pulse and 180 °,,,the aspect of angles what are they and their importance Kindly clarify for me

  • @freddovich7925
    @freddovich79256 ай бұрын

    12:46 Can air resistance be ignored in this question?

  • @user-wr9ks3tf4n
    @user-wr9ks3tf4n2 жыл бұрын

    Hi doctor, in 7:53 is the nuclear spin direction in the wrong way? thank you.

  • @neuroradish

    @neuroradish

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hi. To be perfectly honest, I'm a clinical radiologist not a physicist, and admittedly have a limited knowledge in quantum physics. I would only see those drawings as for illustration purposes. Sort of a lay person's approach to a much more complex topic.

  • @user-wr9ks3tf4n

    @user-wr9ks3tf4n

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@neuroradish I'm currently in cleerkship and struggling with MRI, thank you for your video. Does your video cover the MRI knowledge enough for clerkship and non-radiologist residency? I thought memorizing different disease with different pulse sequence finding is hard, without understanding the physics of MRI; However it is very difficult...

  • @neuroradish

    @neuroradish

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@user-wr9ks3tf4n If you understand these basic MRI physics principles, it is more than enough for radiology clerkship. In fact, this is mostly for radiology residents and what they need to know for their board exam. Unfortunately, I don't think there is an easy way to study or memorize what a particular pathology looks like on what sequences. There are just too many pathologies. For vast majority of radiologists and experience clinicians, it is down to the "muscle memory". You need to look at the images over and over again. My advice is to look at as many images/sequences as you can for a particular disease, rather than just trying to memorize a list or read from a textbook that only shows a few selective images. You need to look at the entire study, repeatedly. Also, rather than trying to study too many diseases at once, pick one or few pathologies that you are not familiar with yet (maybe something you come across during your clerkship, or you heard about in an interesting presentation), then look up as many examples as you can, study it a little in depth, and look at the entire study (all sequences) for that one disease. We learn radiology by seeing the entire study, not just reading few pictures with arrows that points to the findings. I find that when I try to learn too many pathologies at once just by reading a textbook, different pathologies start to bland in with each. Don't get discourage! You'll get there.

  • @user-wr9ks3tf4n

    @user-wr9ks3tf4n

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@neuroradish thank you for your detailed response doctor! I will get your advice and trying to look as much image as possible in one disease.

  • @anthonywilliams7052
    @anthonywilliams70522 жыл бұрын

    The real Lenard McCoy is Deforest Kelly!

  • @neuroradish

    @neuroradish

    2 жыл бұрын

    Indeed. R.I.P. Deforest...

  • @mehetabalam1322
    @mehetabalam1322 Жыл бұрын

    Can I get the slides please

  • @rumisayaqoob3401
    @rumisayaqoob34012 жыл бұрын

    Sir can i get this ppt

  • @InquilineKea
    @InquilineKea2 жыл бұрын

    "transverse decay much faster than longitudinal recovery"

  • @vahstania
    @vahstania3 жыл бұрын

    "in indiana lots of fat" lmao!!!

  • @yusanda741
    @yusanda7412 жыл бұрын

    I had 3T abdominal mri with contrast done a month ago , 6 h later I started with muscle twitching, pins and needles , ringing ears , internal vibrations , light headaches , tingle in my spine area . Nobody knows why . I google mri can provoked PNS . Is that possible that after a month I still have symptoms?

  • @jacobvandijk6525

    @jacobvandijk6525

    2 жыл бұрын

    Dear o dear, that sounds bad. Did they investigate the contrast?

  • @yusanda741

    @yusanda741

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jacobvandijk6525 well they stated you pee the contrast in 48 h . I did Urine test to measure gadolinium. Pending results . They also stated that PNS only occurred while you’re in the scanner . They cleaned their hands .

  • @josephdays07
    @josephdays07 Жыл бұрын

    For to do the wavelet transform or Function Wave i am not requiere the complex number or Fourier series. Just I need the new methodoly I discovered.I left this video to compare: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZXmW2NupmpidZ6g.html

  • @shicksr1
    @shicksr1 Жыл бұрын

    I can’t see anything