A novel magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) sequence, combining inversion recovery (IR) with MRE, is introduced to quantify poroelastic properties of biphasic materials. The method is demonstrated on custom-made tofu phantoms featuring biphasic tissue properties with different porosities and elastic moduli. IR-MRE allows for the first time to study the individual fluid and matrix motion in a biphasic medium and the interactions between the two. The same technique applied to in vivo brain also confirms fundamental predictions of poroelasticity theory and demonstrates the transferability of IR-MRE from simple biphasic model materials to complex living tissues.
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