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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2011 Jan;65(1):269–279. doi: 10.1002/mrm.22591
List of Symbols:
cos α :roman cos for the mathematical symbol cosine, and italic greek lower case alpha as the argument of the cosine (here used for the flip angle)
ΔB0(r) :greek lower case letter delta, italic upper case B (“bee”), subscript “zero”, in parentheses bold lower case roman r (“err”) (indicating a vector)
exp(t/T1) :roman exp (for exponential) and in parentheses lower case t (“tee”), dash (/) for divided by, upper case italic T (“tee”) and subscript 1 “one”
γ :greek lower case letter gamma (here used for the gyromagnetic ratio)
Φ :italic greek upper case letter Phi (here used for the image phase)
Φ(rTE1) :italic greek upper case letter Phi, in parentheses bold lower case roman r (indicating a vector), upper case italic TE and subscript 1 “one”
rdc :roman lower case r “err”, subscript roman lower case d “dee” and c “cee”
σ :italic greek lower case letter sigma (here used for the image noise)
SSE :italic capital letter S, subscript italic capital letter S, subscript italic capital letter E
SSTE :italic capital letter S, subscript italic capital letter S, subscript italic capital letter T, subscript italic capital letter E
T1 :italic capital letter T, and subscript italic 1 “one” (for the relaxation time)
T2 :italic capital letter T, and subscript italic 2 “two” (for the relaxation time)