Chaitanya Kalavagunta1, Gregory John Metzger1
1Center of Magnetic Resonance Research,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
The
goal of this study was to measure r1 and r2* relaxivity of Gd-DTPA in bovine
blood and aqueous solution at 3T and 7T. To our knowledge this is the first
time that the r2* characteristic for blood has been measured at 7T.