Gradient echo signal and contrast
December 21, 2018
Gradient echo (GE, GRE, FLASH, SPGR, T1-FFE, FE) is one of the hardest elements of MRI to understand. Image signal and contrast in spoiled gradient echo depends upon three user-selected parameters: For any given tissue T1 and scanner TR there is a flip angle, the Ernst angle, that gives the maximum signal for that tissue. … More Gradient echo signal and contrast