MR imaging techniques in which the image is built up from successive lines through the object. In various schemes, the lines are isolated by oscillating magnetic field gradients or selective excitation, and then the NMR signals from the selected line are encoded for position by detecting the FID or spin echo in the presence of a magnetic field gradient along the line; the Fourier transformation of the detected signal then yields the distribution of emitted NMR signal along the line.

See Sequential Line Imaging.

(MLSI) Variations of sequential line imaging techniques that can be used if selective excitation methods that do not affect adjacent lines are employed. Adjacent lines are imaged while waiting for relaxation of the first line toward equilibrium, which may result in decreased image acquisition time. A different type of MLSI uses simultaneous excitation of two or more lines with different phase encoding followed by suitable decoding.

Sequential line imaging technique utilizing two orthogonal oscillating magnetic field gradients, a SFP pulse sequence, and signal averaging to isolate the NMR spectrometer sensitivity to a desired line in the body.

(2D FT) A form of sequential plane imaging using Fourier transformation imaging. In 2D FT, a line of data corresponds to the digitized NMR signal at a particular phase encoding level. The Fourier transformation process reconstructs the detected frequency and phase encoded image information (which are rotated 90° from each other) into a usable image.