HIGH SPEED IMAGING METHOD WITH THREE-DIMENSIONAL NMR

摘要

The present invention is an imaging method using three-dimensional NMR to which an echo-planar method is applied. After excitation of nuclear spins, the gradient magnetic field Gx for phase-encoding is applied and there is repeated a sequence of measuring and obtaining an echo train of spin-echoes with a constant gradient magnetic field Gx and a periodically-inverted gradient magnetic field Gy, as varying the amount of encoding, so as to obtain the three-dimensional imaging by the Fourier-conversion. Moreover, after the selective excitation of spins within an X-Y surface, a 180 DEG radio frequency pulse is applied. As varying the time difference tau epsilon between the interval from the excitation until the application of the 180 DEG radio frequency pulse and the interval from the application thereof until a peak of a first echo of an echo train, three-dimensional imaging is carried out with a chemical shift axis as one axis by repeating the sequence and accomplishing Fourier-conversion with tau epsilon as a numerical variable.