Improved accuracy and consistency in T1 measurement of flowing blood by using inversion recovery GE-EPI

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1083-1093

  Guo, Jun Yu ^a   Kim, Seong Eun ^a   Parker, D L ^a   Jeong, E K ^a   Zhang, Ling ^a   Roemer, R B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

ECG gating; EPI; Spin lattice relaxation constant; T1 measurement; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; SPIN-LATTICE RELAXATION; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ADIABATIC INVERSION PULSE; ECG GATING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; INTENSITY CHANGE; INVERSION RECOVERY; PULSE SEQUENCE; SPIN LATTICES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

BLOOD;

PROTON; WATER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CURVE FITTING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 17844381073     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1879732     Document Type: Article

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