| Literature DB >> 27918897 |
Hongzhi Wang1, Ming Zhao2, Jerome L Ackerman3, Yiqiao Song4.
Abstract
Spin-lattice relaxation (T1) has always been measured by inversion-recovery (IR), saturation-recovery (SR), or related methods. These existing methods share a common behavior in that the function describing T1 sensitivity is the exponential, e.g., exp(-τ/T1), where τ is the recovery time. In this paper, we describe a saturation-inversion-recovery (SIR) sequence for T1 measurement with considerably sharper T1-dependence than those of the IR and SR sequences, and demonstrate it experimentally. The SIR method could be useful in improving the contrast between regions of differing T1 in T1-weighted MRI.Entities:
Keywords: Saturation inversion recovery; Spin-lattice relaxation; T(1) contrast; T(1) dispersion
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27918897 PMCID: PMC5183529 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2016.11.015
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Magn Reson ISSN: 1090-7807 Impact factor: 2.229