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Abstract #4451

Skin T1 Mapping at 1.5T, 3T, and 7T.

Joelle Karine Barral1, Nikola Stikov1, Erik Gudmundson2, P. Stoica2, Dwight George Nishimura1

1Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA; 2Information Technology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden


Increasing the field strength seems promising for high-resolution skin imaging but a legitimate concern is the increase in the spin-lattice relaxation parameter T1. Skin T1 maps at 1.5T, 3T, and 7T are compared and a novel non-linear least-square approach for fast and accurate T1-estimation is proposed.