title: Rapid acquisition transverse relaxometric imaging.
abstract: Segmented echo-planar acquisitions have been incorporated into a multiecho imaging sequence to produce a MRI method for rapid transverse relaxometry. The method is demonstrated on gel phantoms and rat brain and found to produce unbiased estimates of T(2). Gradient performance can be a limiting factor for the implementation of this technique and there is a cost in signal-to-noise ratio resulting from the higher bandwidth required, as is typical for echo-planar acquisitions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Does
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Gore
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001931:Brain Mapping; D017352:Echo-Planar Imaging; D005260:Female; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley