Compensation of diffusion effects in T2 measurements

Magn Reson Med. 1995 Jan;33(1):113-5. doi: 10.1002/mrm.1910330117.

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.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Diffusion
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Models, Structural