The frequency dependence of balanced steady-state free precession signals causes significant alterations in modified Look-Locker inversion recovery T1 measurements of livers with fat accumulation, leading to either under- or over-estimation of liver T1 values. This is further to the already-known influence of iron. The present study shows a possibility to correct for these effects, yielding a T1 measurement that represents the T1 of the water component independent of the fat and is tested both in phantoms and human participants.
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