Christoph Birkl1,
Christian Langkammer1, Johannes Haybaeck2, Christina
Ernst2, Rudolf Stollberger3, Franz Fazekas1,
Stefan Ropele1
1Department
of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria; 2Department
of Neuropathology, Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Graz,
Austria; 3Institute of Medical Engineering, Graz University of
Technology, Graz, Austria
In this work we investigated the temperature dependency of T1 and T2 relaxation times in the human brain. Our results confirmed the predicted temperature dependency of T1 but showed a strong difference between the brain structures. The temperature dependency of T2 is to small to measure because it is masked out by different effects. This work provides for the first time detailed temperature dependency values of the human brain and can be used to improve MR thermometry or to translate findings from postmortem MR to in-vivo data.
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