Ewart Mark Haacke1,2, Jin Tang3,
Yu-Chung Norman Cheng1, Jaladhar Neelavalli2,4
1Academic Radiology, Wayne State
University, Detroit, MI, United States; 2The MRI Institute for
Biomedical Research, Detroit, MI, United States; 3McMaster
University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; 4Nuffield Department of
Surgery, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
A
new means of visualizing veins which is independent of orientation of vessels
(or the head) relative to the main magnetic field is presented. This new
venous imaging method is based on direct mapping of the susceptibility using
the inverse Greens function approach.