Basic concepts

• Summary
• Pharmacokinetics
  • Definitions and notations
  • Indicator transit times
  • Trap
  • Pass
  • Compartment
  • Plug flow
  • Chain
  • Plug-flow compartment
  • Step
  • Free
  • N-compartment system
  • 2-compartment exchange
  • Non-stationary compartment
  • Michaelis-Menten compartment
• Relaxation
  • Definitions and notations
  • Longitudinal relaxation
  • Transverse relaxation
• Signals
  • Definitions and notations
  • Spoiled gradient-echo steady state
  • Spoiled gradient-echo outside the steady state
• Optimization
• Inversion