Choose EITHER of the following questions and answer in a well-developed essay. Remember that you may not write about the story you used as the basis for the previous essay question in this essay.   Option A: Compare and contrast relationships between characters in any two stories from the course’s reading. (These can be familial, romantic, business-related, friendly, etc.)   Option B: Based on your understanding of “irony,” which of the stories we have read this semester presents the best example of this literary device?  Be sure to clarify the type(s) of irony employed by the author.

Which artifact appears as a dense broken line across the image perpendicular to the frequency encoding axis?

Cardiac triggering is a technique used to synchronize image acquisition with the heartbeat.

One strategy to minimize Gibbs truncation artifact is to increase the number of phase encoding steps.

Improper humidity levels in the MRI room can cause zebra stripe moiré artifacts.

What does the term ‘ghosting’ specifically refer to in MRI?

What is the effect of dielectric/ B1 inhomogeneity in MRI?

To double SNR, NEX/NSA must increase by a factor of 2.

Noise is the voltage induced in the receiver coil by the precession of the net magnetic vector (NMV) in the transverse plane.

Doubling this parameter will double the amount of data stored in each line of k-space: