title: A new T2*-weighting technique for magnetic resonance imaging.
abstract: This paper describes a method that prepares the longitudinal magnetization with T2* weighting for subsequent acquisition. The main advantage of our technique is its insensitivity to static field inhomogeneity. We have combined this approach with an ultrafast gradient-echo (Turbo-FLASH) sequence and conducted experiments on phantoms and volunteers to demonstrate its capability and utility. With such a technique a T2*-weighted image can be generated in less than a second. In the paper, the detail of the technique and experimental results are presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis 55455.
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D006257:Head / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008961:Models, Structural