Episode 154: Magnetic Resonance Imaging

The Science of Everything Podcast by James Fodor

Sep 23, 202591:46Science & Medicine

An overview of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), beginning from the basic physics of nuclear magnetic resonance, and covering the use of radiowaves to excite nuclear spin states, and the T1 and T2 modes of relaxation. We...

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