Klaus
Mllenhoff1, N Jon Shah1,2, Eberhard D. Pracht1,
Tony Stcker1
1Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine
4, Medical Imaging Physics, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Juelich,
Germany; 2Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, RWTH
Aachen University, JARA, Aachen, Germany
TAPIR
is an extremely flexible Look-Locker sequence that allows choices to be made
regarding coverage and number of time points acquired on the recovery curve.
We are using AFP inversion pulses to be more accurate and a segmented EPI
readout together with parallel imaging to reduce the total acquisition time.