Joshua F. P. van Amerom1,
2, Christopher M. Wernik3, Venkat Ramanan4,
Graham A. Wright, 34, Christopher K. Macgowan, 23
1Labatt
Family Heart Centre, Div. of Cardiology, Dept. of Paediatrics, Hospital for
Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada; 2Dept. Of Diagnostic Imaging,
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada; 3Dept. of Medical
Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; 4Imaging
Research, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
MR oximetry based on quantitative T2 measurement is a noninvasive technique for measuring blood oxygen saturation. In this study, we apply an improved technique, Magnetic resonance Oximetry with Velocity Encoding, in vivo. This technique uses Fourier velocity encoding to isolate moving blood from static tissue based on velocity.