COMPONENTS OF MRI

Er. Sanket A. Mahore

B.E Biomedical Engineering, M.Tech Biomedical Instrumentation

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Cyrostat

Gradients

Body RF Coil

Passive Shims

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❖Super conducting magnet
1. Very high voltages are used
2. Wire is winded on coil & electrically
3. applied to the ends 4. More voltage greater the field
❖ Permanent magnet
1. Heavy weight 2. Full of strength
3. Low cost 4. Internal core is made of it that
generate 5. mag field all the time
❖Resistive magnet
1. Internal x-axis is controlled by resistive magnet
2. Portion of imaging is controlled

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Helium vessel containing
super-con coil

Vacuum

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Quench Pipe

Cold Head

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❖RADIO FREQUENCY
1. Signal are used to transmit the image from the patient's
body in MRI process.
2. RF energy is used is a form of nonionizing radiation
❖RF COILS
1. These are located with in Magnet
2. Function as antennae for both transmitting and receiving
signals from tissues.
3. Three basic types of RF coils used according
4. different anatomical regions.
√ Head = for head region
√ Body = for thorax and abdominal
region
√ Surface = for small regions (limbs)
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❖RF Transmitter

1. Generates RF energy in the form of RF pulses

2. Applied to coil and transmitted to patient’s body

3. Absorbed by the tissues

❖RF Receiver

1. Short time after RF pulse transmission resonating tissue will

respond by returning Signal

2. Provide data from which image is reconstructed

3. Resulting image is display of RF signal

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❖GRADIENT COIL
1. Have a magnetic field that changes temporally and able to
variate its field .
2. Contained with in magnetic assembly
3. Magnetic field produced must be distorted or altered with
gradient coil
4. Imaging magnet contains three separate set of gradient coils
produced in 3 directions (x,y,z directions)

❖SHIELDING
Magnetic field shielding
1.(shield by conducting material like iron)
2.(Improves homogeneity by protecting from interference)
RF shielding
1.(enclosing in material like copper to block external RF
interference)
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Coil
X
Z

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❖COMPUTER
Data acquisition control
(acquisition of RF signal from patient body . Sequence of RF pulse is transmitted to the body)
Image reconstruction
(computer use collected data during acquisition process to create or construct image by fourier transform)
Image storage
(image are stored in the computer for future viewing)

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THANK YOU.

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