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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2011 Nov 29;68(1):130–139. doi: 10.1002/mrm.23218

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Diagram of the pulse sequence that combines ASL and a segmented multi-phase bSSFP readout. A saturation pulse is applied in the image plane to suppress the image background before the inversion pulse. Two pulse sequence schemes are proposed: the FAIR method (a) in which the bSSFP readout immediately follows the inversionpulse; and the QUIPSS II method (b) in which a delay is inserted between the inversion pulse and bSSFP readout. A saturation pulse is applied inferior to the image plane to spoil the label at the delay time.