A recent paper on MR imaging of infectious spondylitis [1) elaborated on and substantiated a previous report [2) of STIR in the evaluation of spinal infection. However, it also contained an important error in pulse sequence nomenclature: STIR was described as "short T1 inversion recovery. " The STIR sequence was described and named by Drs. Bydder, Young, and Steiner [3 , 4) as "short Tl inversi...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The diagnosis of subacute subarachnoid hemorrhage is important because rebleeding may occur with subsequent life-threatening hemorrhage. Our aim was to determine the sensitivity of the 3D double inversion recovery sequence compared with CT, 2D and 3D FLAIR, 2D T2*, and 3D SWI sequences for the detection of subacute SAH. MATERIALS AND METHODS This prospective study inclu...

T1 mapping is a promising quantitative tool for assessing diffuse cardiomyopathies. The purpose of this study is to quantify in vivo accuracy of the Modified Look-Locker Inversion Recovery (MOLLI) cardiac T1 mapping sequence against the spin echo gold standard, which has not been done previously. T1 accuracy of MOLLI was determined by comparing with the gold standard inversion recovery spin ech...

The measure of the longitudinal, or T, , relaxation time in nuclear magnetic resonance experiments is a common diagnostic tool. There have been several methods proposed for measuring this parameter. Most of these methods measure the recovery of longitudinal magnetization after inversion or saturation. Conventional ( 180”-Ti90”) experiments measure the signal strength for a single temporal point...

PURPOSE To evaluate the error in T1 estimates using inversion-recovery-based T1 mapping due to imperfect inversion and to perform a systematic study of adiabatic inversion pulse designs in order to maximize inversion efficiency for values of transverse relaxation (T2) in the myocardium subject to a peak power constraint. METHODS The inversion factor for hyperbolic secant and tangent/hyperboli...

Quantification of myocardial T1 relaxation has potential value in the diagnosis of both ischemic and nonischemic cardiomyopathies. Image acquisition using the modified Look-Locker inversion recovery technique is clinically feasible for T1 mapping. However, respiratory motion limits its applicability and degrades the accuracy of T1 estimation. The robust registration of acquired inversion recove...