Abstract #0741

Improved Accuracy of Cross-Relaxation Imaging Using On-Resonance MT Effect Correction

Pouria Mossahebi¹, Vasily L. Yarnykh², Alexey A. Samsonov³

¹Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin , Madison, WI, United States; ²Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States; ³Radiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States

This study demonstrates that separate treatment of VFA and MT data in the CRI method causes non-negligible systematic errors in both R1 and cross-relaxation parameters. Our modified CRI data processing approach effectively corrects these errors and does not require any additional measurements, thus maintaining time-efficiency of the original CRI technique.