Kerstin Demberg1, Frederik Bernd Laun1, Johannes Windschuh1, Reiner Umathum1, Peter Bachert1, and Tristan Anselm Kuder1
By diffusion
pore imaging, the average shape of arbitrary closed pores in an imaging volume
element can be detected employing a long-narrow gradient profile. Alternative approaches
use short gradient pulses only. Until now, however, diffusion pore imaging of
non-point-symmetrically shaped pores has not been demonstrated using short
gradient pulses only. In this abstract, we present a first experimental verification
using double diffusion encoded experiments. Non-point-symmetric pores result in
non-vanishing imaginary parts in the double diffusion encoded signal. Thus the phase
of the form factor can be estimated with an iterative approach. This allows for
unambiguous pore image reconstruction.