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Introduction to SWIFT (Sweep Imaging with Fourier Transformation) for Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Materials

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A novel, fast, and quiet method of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), called SWIFT (sweep imaging with Fourier transformation) has recently been introduced. In addition to SWIFT’s potential for in-vivo MRI, it creates new opportunities for MRI of materials. SWIFT currently operates in 3d radial acquisition mode. A series of segmented hyperbolic secant excitation pulses is accompanied by acquisition in the gaps. Each excitation, after correlation with the pulse results in a free induction decay (FID). The spectrum corresponding to the FID is a projection. There is very little “dead time” between excitation and acquisition, making SWIFT useful for imaging of short T2 materials, but in total imaging times comparable to fast gradient echo sequences.

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Corum, C., Idiyatullin, D., Moeller, S. et al. Introduction to SWIFT (Sweep Imaging with Fourier Transformation) for Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Materials. MRS Online Proceedings Library 984, 906 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-984-0984-MM09-06

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