From Philips Medical Systems;
this active shielded member of the Panorama product line combines the advantages of one 1.0 T system's with the possibilities of an open MRI system. The open design helps ease anxiety for claustrophobic patients and increased patient comfort whereby the field strength provides spectacular image quality and fast patient throughput.

The partial volume effect is the loss of contrast between two adjacent tissues in an image caused by insufficient resolution so that more than one tissue type occupies the same voxel (or pixel). That may induce a partial volume artifact, dependent on the size of the image voxel. If fat and water spins occupy the same voxel, their signals interfere destructively. A small amount of water signal may be eliminated by a larger lipid signal from the same voxel, resulting in a voxel that appears to contain only lipid. The partial volume effect is minimal with thin slice thickness and sufficiently high resolution, so that fat and water or other different structures are unlikely to occupy the same voxel.

Take thinner slices, and higher resolution (smaller voxel), but remain this may result in poorer signal to noise ratio in the image.

Resolution is a function of slice thickness, field of view (FOV) and matrix size. The resolution in plane is a function of FOV / matrix size.

Size of smallest spatially resolved regions in an image. It may be anisotropic, e.g. with an asymmetric acquisition matrix or slice thickness, and may be larger than the pixel or voxel.

The time linearly from 0 to its maximum flat top measured in mT/m or G/cm. 10 mT/m=1G/cm. The height of the flat top influences the FOV. The higher the flat top or maximum gradient amplitude the smaller the FOV and the thinner the available slice thickness.