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Walter R T Witschey1, James J Pilla, Giovanni Ferrari, Kevin Koomalsingh, Mohammed Haris, Robin Hinmon, Gerald Zsido, Joseph H Gorman, Robert C Gorman, Ravinder Reddy.
Abstract
T1ρ relaxation times were quantified in a swine model of chronic, left ventricular myocardial infarction. It was found that there were low frequency relaxation mechanisms that suppress endogenous contrast at low spin-lock amplitudes and in T2-weighted images. A moderate amplitude spin-locking pulse could overcome these relaxation mechanisms. Relaxation dispersion data were measured over a range of RF field amplitudes, and a model was formulated to include dipole-dipole relaxation modulated by molecular rotation and an apparent exchange mechanism. These techniques may find some use in the clinic for the observation of chronic, left ventricular cardiac remodeling.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20677236 PMCID: PMC2965811 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22543
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Magn Reson Med ISSN: 0740-3194 Impact factor: 4.668