THE DIFFUSION SENSITIVITY OF FAST STEADY-STATE FREE PRECESSION IMAGING
THE DIFFUSION SENSITIVITY OF FAST STEADY-STATE FREE PRECESSION IMAGING
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DOI:
10.1002/mrm.1910290212
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发表时间:
1993-02-01
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
BUXTON, RB
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作者:
BUXTON, RB
Steady-state free precession (SSFP) imaging with an added field gradient pulse is strongly sensitive to self-diffusion and other motions of water. In an earlier theoretical analysis of diffusion attenuation due to a single gradient pulse Wu and Buxton (J. Magn. Reson. 90, 243, 1990) concluded that the diffusion sensitivity would be increased with smaller flip angles. In this paper a partial partition analysis of the different echo pathways contributing to the signal is used to illustrate the contribution of stimulated echo pathways with long diffusion times as the source of the enhanced diffusion sensitivity with low flip angles. Experimental imaging studies in phantoms and the brain of a human subject demonstrate substantially greater signal attenuation with small flip angles (