Why the study?
Does tangent/hyperbolic tangent adiabatic pulse design improve inversion efficiency and reduce T1 mapping errors compared to hyperbolic secant designs in myocardial T1 mapping?
Population
Bloch equation simulations and phantom measurements for myocardial T1 mapping
Comparison
Tangent/hyperbolic tangent adiabatic full… vs Hyperbolic secant adiabatic pulse designs
Design
Preclinical
Authors
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Hypothesis-generating for myocardial T1 mapping optimization; leaves open clinical translation and human validation.
Does tangent/hyperbolic tangent adiabatic pulse design improve inversion efficiency and reduce T1 mapping errors compared to hyperbolic secant designs in myocardial T1 mapping?
Tangent/hyperbolic tangent adiabatic pulses improve inversion efficiency and reduce errors in inversion-recovery-based myocardial T1 mapping compared to standard hyperbolic secant designs.
Kellman et al. (2013) studied this question.
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