How much do we really need to know about this T1 and T2 business... Jacaranda goes into quite some detail, and looking through notes of past students, they barely touch the finer details of T1 and T2 weighting.. can anyone enlighten me?
nekkid said:This is all you have to know, according to Charles Sturt notes:
- ‘Relaxation’ is the name of the processes whereby the nuclei return to random, out of phase, precession. There are two relaxation processes, termed T1 and T2.
- Spin-lattice relaxation, T1, happens as the nuclei transfer energy quanta to the nearby molecular lattice.
- Spin-spin relaxation, T2, happens as nuclei transfer energy quanta between each other.
- In biological tissues only spins in the ‘free water pool’ contribute to the measurable MR signal whereas spins in ‘bound water’ do not.
OMG o_____________Osnoopwogg said:Tha cheery weird doood that always comes up with the weird facts and knows something about everything. The one who sits next to me in class.. the one they call ELIAS... did u know ultrasound can be used as a vibrator? He told me that