EPJ Web of Conferences 30, 01001 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20123001001

Basic Principles of NMR and MRI

¹ Emeritus Research Director at CEA, France
² Emeritus Laboratory Vice-Director at Collège de France, France
³ Member of Académie des sciences,, France

Abstract

This introduction presentation addresses in a general way the historical invention of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and its general aspects and characteristics: sensitivity and its consequences, nature of the interactions, observation methods, sophistications, longitudinal and transverse relaxation, and principle of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.