Masanori Ozaki1 and Masao Yui1
1Research and Development Center, Canon Medical Systems Corporation, Kawasaki, Japan
1Research and Development Center, Canon Medical Systems Corporation, Kawasaki, Japan
Inhomogeneous magnetization transfer can
produce myelin-specific contrast, however long acquisition times are necessary for
acquisitions with whole-brain coverage. Our proposed method achieved reduced
acquisition times without SNR penalty compared to previous reports.
Figure 2. Representative maps of: a,c) ihMTR;
b,d) ihMTRinv; a,b) maps calculated by 3D segmented SPGR dataset and
c,d) maps calculated by 3D segmented SPGR-EPI dataset from a healthy volunteer,
as acquired in the sagittal plane, and reformatted into the coronal and axial
planes.
Figure 1. Sequence diagrams used to acquire
data for: a) ihMT, and b) reference using a T1 preparation.
