MRI and its utility!

1. The Study Sr. Secondary School Badi, Udaipur Project to be submitted for the partial fulfillment of CBSE, Class XII, Practical Examination 2006-07 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Submitted by: Kartik Gupta Submitted to: Mr. Mukesh Shrimali

3. Certificate This is to certify that Mr. Kartik Gupta of Class XII has satisfactorily completed the course of experiments and the project report in practical Physics prescribed by the Central Board of Secondary Education in the laboratory of The Study Senior Secondary School, Udaipur in the year 2006-07 . Date : Signature of the Teacher-in-charge Signature of the Principal

6. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Above: Magnetic Resonance Image showing a vertical (sagittal) cross section through a human head.

8. Credit of Discovery The foundations for imaging using magnetic resonance were laid in 1946 by Bloch and Purcell; Bloch at Stanford, studying liquids, and Purcell at Harvard, in solids. Though they received Nobel prizes for their discovery, it was not until 1973 that nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) was used to generate images.

11. A Typical MRI Machine

15. Step Three: Zooming in on a Voxel… Increasing Magnification at each Step…

23. A Diagrammatic Representation of the Physical Aspect Of MRI

30. The Study Sr. Secondary School Badi, Udaipur