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Abstract #1227

Characterizing Longitudinal Relaxation in Bovine Brain White Matter ex vivo

Saeed Kalantari1, Radim Barta2, Nazanin Komeilizadeh3, Carl Michal2, Alex L. MacKay1, 2

1UBC MRI Research Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 2Department of Physics, UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 3Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

The main goal of this research was to investigate whether white matter T1 relaxation in brain is a mono-exponential or a multi-exponential phenomenon.

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