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Michael Francois Nel

MBChB, BSC (Med) Hons

Michael is a medical doctor (MBChB, BSc (Med) Hons) from Cape Town, South Africa.

In 2023, he started Radiology Tutorials, which provides online radiology education for junior doctors and radiology trainees.

Michael has created three Radiopaedia imaging physics learning pathways.

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Question 2954

What cause of signal loss does a spin echo sequence compensate for?

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Question 2955

Which of the following changes in isolation will produce higher signal values in gradient echo imaging?

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Question 2956

A gradient echo pulse sequence with a short TE, short TR and a large flip angle will have predominantly which weighting?

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Question 2957

A short TI, short TE inversion recovery sequence will produce which image?

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Question 2958

Which of the following spin echo sequences is seldom performed?

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Question 2959

A single-echo conventional spin echo sequence takes 4 minutes to complete. Assuming resolution and TR remain constant, how long will a fast spin echo sequence with an echo train length (ETL) of 8 take to perform?

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Question 2960

Which of the following is true regarding echo planar imaging (EPI)?

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Question 2961

Which of the following does NOT change the b value in diffusion weighted imaging?

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Question 2962

Which of the following sequences is predominantly used in diffusion weighted imaging (DWI)?

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Question 2963

Which sequence parameter is required in time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography (TOF MRA)?

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Question 2964

Phase change for a spin moving at a constant velocity, across a constant magnetic field gradient, for a given period of time is proportional to...

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Question 2965

In phase contrast MR angiography (PC MRA), blood flowing at 50cm/s through a slice exhibits 180 degrees of phase change after being exposed to the bipolar phase gradients. What is the velocity encoding (VENC) value that has been used in this sequence?

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Question 2966

Which combination of sequence parameters is usually best for contrast enhanced MR angiography (CE MRA)?

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Question 2967

Which of the following is an advantage of multi-voxel sequences over single-voxel sequences in MR spectroscopy?

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Question 2968

Which of the following is required in point resolved spectroscopy (PRESS)?

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