Mitchell Anthony Cooper1,2, Thanh D. Nguyen3,
Pascal Spincemaille3, Martin R. Prince3, Jonathan W.
Weinsaft4, Yi Wang1,3
1Biomedical Engineering,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States; 2Radiology, Weill
Cornell Medical College , New York, United States; 3Radiology,
Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, United States; 4Cardiology,
Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, United States
In this study we investigated the accuracy of a new method to fit Look-Locker 2D SSFP data with flip angle profile correction. Utilizing the bloch equations and integrating over the flip angle profile, we were able to determine T1 with substantially lower error when compared to previous methods for SSFP T1 mapping sequences. We were able to accurately measure T1 and T2 in the thigh on a healthy volunteer cohort.