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Thus, we used a prototype B0-shimming package to reduce the bandwidth of signals from the myocardium, making it possible to invert magnetization with the RF http://www.selleckchem.com/products/MG132.html hardware available. Meanwhile, FLASH imaging was chosen for the readouts, because it is more robust against artifacts than bSSFP and because it contributes less SAR. Indeed, the RF amplifier duty cycle and T2 relaxation already limited the inversion pulses to ��30 ms, so SAR did not restrict our choice of FLASH readout or HS8 inversion parameters. Theory, phantom, and in vivo experiments (Eq. (3), Figs. 3 and 7a) all confirm the critical importance of perfect inversion for accurate T1 measurements using the Deichmann�CHaase correction . Yet, it is impossible to http://www.selleckchem.com/products/epacadostat-incb024360.html achieve perfect inversion in vivo because of T2 relaxation and limited peak . The impact of inversion efficiency when measuring T1 has been discussed for the brain [34, 35]. Quantifying and correcting for imperfect inversion is also critical to the 7 T cardiac experiments presented here. Moreover, theory predicts up to ?5% error in cardiac T1 due to incomplete inversion at lower fields. Although four-parameter fitting is introduced here in the context of experiments at 7 T, it should also be applicable at 1.5 and 3 T. Four-parameter fitting is a compromise between the empirical model in Eq. (1) and a full Bloch simulation of the magnetization, which would require measurement of several tissue parameters simultaneously such as the tissue T2, ��B0, , , extent of flow, and the through-slice tissue distribution. Bloch simulations support these approximations for the relevant range of parameters. In particular, the relatively short myocardial T2 and use of spoiler gradients in the sequence allows Mx and My to be neglected. Fitting in Matlab on a desktop http://www.selleck.cn/products/pfi-2.html computer ran in