Reducing base resolution will reduce the scan time. Reduce the base resolution by one or two steps. Increasing basic resolution will result in a prolonged scan time. Increasing the resolution more than the acceptable range will produce grains in the image due to low SNR and reducing it more than the acceptable range will produce a blurry image due to high SNR. Increasing the basic resolution will increase the image quality. Therefore the SNR is calculated by 4/ √2 =2.82 If we compare a 256 x 256 and 128 x 128 matrix format, the pixel size of 128(2x2mm) matrix is four times larger than the 256(1x1mm) matrix but there is only half phase encoding steps (lines in the k space).

Increasing the base resolution will reduce the pixel size therefore the SNR of the image will be reduced. In other words SNR is directly proportional to the pixel size. Signal to noise ratio (SNR) is inversely proportional to the basic resolution. Basic resolution is inversely proposal to the size of the pixel and (the lower the resolution the higher the pixel size). Basic resolution also determines the size of the image matrix.

basic resolution and phase resolution.īasic resolution is the number of pixels in the readout direction. There are two resolution parameters used in MRI for the production of a two dimensional image i.e. Pixel size can be calculated by dividing the field of view by the matrix size (e.g.FOV 320, Matrix 320x320, Pixel size =320/320=1mm). Resolution is directly proportional to the number of pixels (The higher the number of pixels the greater the resolution). The higher the image resolution, the better the small pathologies can be diagnosed. In MRI the resolution is determined by the number of pixels in a specified FOV. Resolution is the ability of human eyes to distinguish one structure from other.

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