title: Compensation of diffusion effects in T2 measurements.
abstract: Measurements of the transverse relaxation time T2 are usually conducted with the Carr Purcell Meiboom Gill (CPMG) pulse sequence, which causes T2-weighted magnetization. Diffusion effects are a common source of error in measurements of this kind, because the incoherent motion of spins in external magnetic field gradients distorts T2 weighting of the transverse magnetization. As a result, inaccurate T2-values are obtained. In this work, we present a method which completely compensates for the effect of diffusion.
authors.affiliation: Physikalisches Institut, Universität Würzburg, Germany.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Deichmann
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Adolf
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kuchenbrod
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Nöth
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schwarzbauer
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Haase
mesh_terms: D004058:Diffusion; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008961:Models, Structural