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Table 1 Artifact to maximal signal ratios (x100) for suppression method imaging type and heart rate. Underlined numbers have the least artifact to signal ratio

From: A new method to suppress ghosting artifacts arising from long-T1 species in segmented inversion recovery (IR) sequences

Artifact-Signal Ratio (x 100)

GRE

SSFP

 

Magnitude

PSIR

Magnitude

PSIR

 

HR60

HR100

HR60

HR100

HR60

HR100

HR60

HR100

No Suppression

13.5

17.4

88.3

97.1

14.2

19

54

53.4

Suppression 1

2.8

9.3

10.2

54.6

4.2

9.5

25.8

44.8

Suppression 2

3.9

8.4

17.8

57.1

3.2

6.6

20.2

34

Suppression 3

2.8

3.2

10.5

13.8

1.2

3.4

3.4

20.5

Suppression 4

3.2

3.9

4.7

11.9

2.5

10.2

1.5

24.7

Suppression 5

2.2

2.2

0.7

1

0.6

0.6

0.5

0.1