Quantitative myocardial first-pass cardiovascular magnetic resonance perfusion imaging using hyperpolarized [1-13C] pyruvate

Table 1 Parameters investigated by simulations. BASE values refer to the respective parameter value used for the reference simulation. Range refers to the respectively investigated value range for each parameter

Parameter	BASE value	Range [min, max]	Step size
MBF [mL/min/g]	2.5	[0.5, 5.0]	0.5
B₀ in-plane [ppm]	0.25	[0.0, 2.0]	0.5
B_dz through-plane [ppm]	0.0	[0.0, 1.0]	0.5
k_PL [s⁻¹]	0.0	[0.0, 0.2]	0.05
v_max [m/s]	0.35	[0.175, 0.7]	0.175

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