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Abstract #2319

Exploring the Complementarities of the MP2RAGE and the Sa2RAGE Sequences - Quantitative T1 Mapping

Jos P. Marques1, 2, Tobias Kober1, Florent Eggenschwiler1, Tobias Kober1, 3, Rolf Gruetter1, 4

1CIBM, EPFL, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland; 2CIBM, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland; 3Advanced Clinical Imaging Technology, Siemens Medical Solutions, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland; 4CIBM, University of Lausanne and Geneva, Switzerland

In this work we evaluate the improvement of jointly estimating T1 and B1 maps using the MP2RAGE and Sa2RAGE sequences.

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