Magnetic resonance imaging
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With the proposed fast frequency selective MR imaging (FFSMRI) method, we focused on the elimination of all off-resonance components from the image of the observed object. To maintain imaging speed and simultaneously achieve good frequency selectivity, MRI was divided into two steps: signal acquisition and postprocessing. After the preliminary phase in which we determine imaging parameters, MRI takes place; the signal from the same object is successively acquired M times. ⋯ However, we can decide to keep only a chosen off-resonance component in the image and eliminate all other components, including the on-resonance component and thus producing a different image from the same acquisition. The experiments with Fe(OH)(3) and oil showed that signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) can be improved by about a factor of four. The proposed FFSMRI method is suitable for frequency selective MR imaging and quantitative measurements in dynamic MRI where exclusion of off-resonance components can improve the reliability of measurement.
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The 3-D Look-Locker (LL) imaging method has been shown to be a highly efficient and accurate method for the volumetric mapping of the spin lattice relaxation time T(1). However, conventional 3-D LL imaging schemes are typically limited to small tip angle RF pulses (