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Abstract #0748

Understanding Reciprocity

Daniel K. Sodickson1,2

1Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research (CAI2R) and Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States, 2Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States

The principle of reciprocity, as it applies to magnetic resonance, is both remarkably powerful and regrettably easy to misconstrue. As evidence of this fact, each of us with an interest in the operation of radiofrequency coils need only recall the time we have spent trying to understand, in our guts, the difference between transmit and receive sensitivity patterns. As a respectful supplement to Dr. Hoult’s seminal explications, we here provide a highly streamlined derivation, aimed at bolstering intuition, and offer a simple but fundamental mnemonic to keep your pluses and your minuses straight.

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