Or acronym hell. A look at the (ab)use of the English language for marketing MRI acquistion pulse sequences and methods.

Notes:

• The rules: the word has to be a real word (no proper nouns), and has to be a current product used in image acquisition.
• Some manufacturers seem more likely to use an acronym (acronyms are abbreviations which are also real dictionary words) than a simple abbreviation. Non-acronym abbreviations are not listed here, and so this word cloud should not be used to compare the quantities of manufacturers’ technique offerings.
• Beware of equating apparently equivalent techniques from different manufacturers; they may not be as similar as you first think. Of course the ultimate comparison is in image quality and sequence utility.

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