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<P. R. Moran> authored a 1982 paper describing flow-sensitive phase modulation for <magnetic resonance imaging>. The method adds information about motion to spatial encoding: the abstract describes imaging a joint distribution of position and <velocity>, rather than treating the signal solely as a map of stationary material.<A flow velocity zeugmatographic interlace for NMR imaging in humans by P. R. Moran>[1982 indexed byline and abstract: phase modulation, joint spatial/flow spin density and reconstructed flow measures]{ref}
The physical idea is <magnetic resonance velocity encoding>. Motion through a <magnetic field gradient> changes accumulated signal <phase> under a specified pulse sequence. Appropriate measurements can therefore distinguish moving spin populations that occupy similar positions. The cited abstract describes reconstructing flow-related quantities from complex image data; it does not establish a unique molecular or material identity from signal phase alone.
A synthetic model shows why a distribution of velocities can matter. At one location, suppose two equally weighted contributions with velocities $+v$ and $-v$ acquire phases $+\kappa v$ and $-\kappa v$. Their combined complex signal is
$$
S=e^{i\kappa v}+e^{-i\kappa v}=2\cos(\kappa v).
$$
It is real even though neither population is stationary. For $\kappa v=\pi/3$, $S=1$, compared with $S=2$ for two stationary contributions in this model. A zero imaginary component alone consequently does not prove zero motion. This is an explanatory phase-summation example, not a numerical result reported in the 1982 paper.
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