Symbol A BW Bo B1 B1R B1T C CW dB DBM E EPI ESR FID fMRI FT GBP Gf Gi G Gmax Gs h IFT IM I J k k k K L LUT m Mo MX MX' MY MY' MZ MXY

MXY MRA MRI

Definition Anterior Angstrom (10-10 meters) Bandwidth Static magnetic field The radio frequency magnetic field Receive B1 magnetic field Transmit B1 magnetic field Contrast Continuous wave Decibel Doubly Balanced Mixer Energy Echo Planar Imaging Electron Spin Resonance Free induction decay functional MRI Fourier transform Bipolar magnetic field gradient Frequency encoding gradient Field gradient in the i direction Phase encoding gradient Maximum value of phase encoding gradient. Slice selection gradient Gyromagnetic ratio Planck's constant Inverse Fourier transform Imaginary part of a complex number Inferior Joule Boltzmann constant kilo (103) Proportionality constant Kelvin temperature Left Look-up table milli (10-3) micro (10-6) Equilibrium magnetization X component of magnetization X' component of magnetization Y component of magnetization Y' component of magnetization Z component of magnetization Transverse component of magnetization Magnetic resonance angiography Magnetic resonance imaging

 N+ NNex NMR P P ppm Q R RE RF S s SNR STS SAR Sinc T T T1 T2 T2* T2inhomo Thk TE TI TR X X' Y Y' Z

Resonance frequency in Hertz Spin population in low energy state Spin population in high energy state Number of excitations (number of averages) Nuclear magnetic resonance Resonance frequency in radians per second Posterior Power 3.14159... Phase angle Parts per million RF coil quality factor Right Real part of a complex number Radio frequency Superior Second Signal-to-Noise Ratio Single-turn solenoid Specific absorption rate Sin(x)/x Temperature Tesla Spin-lattice relaxation time Spin-spin relaxation time T2 star Inhomogeneous T2 Rotation angle Slice thickness Echo Time Inversion Time Repetition Time Axis in laboratory coordinate system Rotating frame X axis Axis in laboratory coordinate system Rotating frame Y axis Axis in laboratory coordinate system

Acronyms from the MRI Literature ADC AST BOLD CE CSI DRESS DWI apparent diffusion coefficient arterial spin trapping blood oxygenation level-dependent contrast Contrast Enhanced chemical shift imaging depth-resolved surface spectroscopy diffusion weighted imaging

EPR EPS ESR FLAIR HYPR IDEAL ISIS k-t k-t-BLAST k-t-SENSE MR MRS PC PR PWI PRESS RARE PROPELLER SENSE SMASH SPACE-RIP SPRITE STEAM STIR SI TRICKS VEST VIPR

electron paramagnetic resonance echo planar spectroscopy electron spin resonance fluid-attenuated inversion recovery HighlY constrained backPRojection Iterative Decomposition of water and fat with Echo Asymmetry and Least-squares estimation Image-selected in vivo spectroscopy k-space and time k-space and time Broad-use Linear Acquisition Speed-up Technique k-space and time Sensitivity Encoding magnetic resonance magnetic resonance spectroscopy Phase Contrast Projection Reconstruction perfusion weighted imaging point-resolved spectroscopy rapid acquisition relaxation enhanced Periodically Rotated Overlapping ParallEL Lines with Enhanced Reconstruction sensitivity encoding for MRI simultaneous acquisition of spatial harmonics sensitivity profiles from an array of coils for encoding and reconstruction in parallel single-point ramped imaging with T1 enhancement stimulated echo acquisition mode short T1 inversion recovery spectroscopic imaging Time-Resolved Imaging of Contrast KineticS volume excitation using stimulated echoes Vastly undersampled isotropic projection imaging