Figure 1
From: Myocardial T2 mapping reveals age- and sex-related differences in volunteers
Principle of T2 map calculation. (A) Example of 6 GRASE-derived echo images with echo times given in the figures. Note, there is only very little cardiac motion between 10 and 150 ms. (B) An exponential fit was performed for each image pixel (exemplarily for the blue circle in the anterior wall of A) with amplitude (h) and damping (1/T2) as fit parameters (fixed bias, y0). T2 value calculation in myocardial tissue was performed for 5, 10 and 15 echoes with 10 ms interecho time. T2 maps are illustrated by a colour-coded map, assigning 0 ms to black and 150 ms to red.