Christian Labadie1,2,
William D. Rooney3, Charles S. Springer, Jr.3,
Jing-Huei Lee4, Monique Aubert-Frcon2, Stefan Hetzer5,
Toralf Mildner1, Harald E. Mller1
1Max Planck
Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; 2Laboratoire
de Spectromtrie Ionique et Molculaire, Universit Claude Bernard Lyon 1,
France; 3Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR,
USA; 4Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA; 5Bernstein
Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany
We adapted a spin-echo center-out echo planar imaging with ultra-short echo time [TE] (DEPICTING) pulse sequence with an inversion recovery [IR] preparation. Two series of 32 pseudo-randomized TIs were acquired with two TEs and analyzed by cross-regularized inverse Laplace transform. The human white matter water proton T2 value associated with the short component w. small water proton T1 detected by IR relaxographic analysis was determined to be 34.2 ms and supports its the assignment as a myelin water fraction.