Figure 2From: On the use of the "look-locker correction" for calculating T1 values from MOLLISimulated magnetization recovery for MOLLI consisting of three interleaved LL blocks (T1 = 1200 ms). The composite MOLLI curve (black line) is made up of two distinct recovery regions: 1) Data points from individual LL blocks (red, green, and blue) which follow their respective (i.e., different) T1* and 2) data points in each hashed box which are essentially acquired in a single-point fashion and follow true T1 relaxation. The T1 contribution causes the composite T1* to be greater than the T1*s of the individual LL blocks. This counterintuitive result is in contrast to the mathematical expectation that a composite exponential curve should have a time constant intermediate to those of the component exponentials.Back to article page