Ke Li1, 2,
Richard D. Dortch1, 2, Nathan D. Bryant1,
2, Amanda K.W. Buck1, 2, Theodore F. Towse,
23, Daniel F. Gochberg1, 2, Mark D. Does1,
2, Bruce M. Damon1, 2, Jane H. Park4
1Institute
of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States; 2Radiology
and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United
States; 3Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, TN, United States; 4Molecular Physiology
and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
In this work, a multi-echo sequence for T2 and a selective inversion recovery (SIR) sequence for qMT were implemented for in vivo human thigh muscle imaging at 3.0 Tesla, and their repeatability was investigated. It is shown that these methods are reliable and repeatable and have potential applications in longitudinal studies of recovery from muscle damage and treatment response.