Figure 1
From: Self-navigated three-dimensional cardiac T2 mapping at 3T
A) Bloch equation simulation demonstrating that the dependence of the T2 fit of the magnetization on the heart rate due to varying T1 relaxation is relatively low (between 43 and 46ms, a variation of 3%), while the "true" input T2 was 45ms. B) T2 map of a phantom that approximates arterial blood and myocardium. The T2 values of the two ‘myocardium' compartments (turquoise) are very similar at 35.3±2.1ms and 35.5±2.4ms and within 1% of the "‘true" T2 value of 35.6ms.