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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2012 Aug 22;70(1):10.1002/mrm.24436. doi: 10.1002/mrm.24436

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Illustration of the Blood flow-Enhanced-Saturation-Recovery (BESR) sequence. Spin preparation is achieved with multiple non-selective saturation pulses; image acquisition uses a gradient echo approach with cardiac triggering; saturation pre-pulse train and gradient echo imaging are both triggered by ECG. Each image acquisition is acquired at the same trigger delay time t but corresponds to different saturation delay time TS.