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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2016 Mar 12;77(2):684–695. doi: 10.1002/mrm.26160

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Short-T2 contrast can be generated in short-TE images by adjusting the pulse duration p and maintaining constant tip angle α in a gradient spoiled sequence (TE=40 µs, TR=9 ms, α=15°). Phantoms comprised of water doped with different concentrations of MnCl2 to have differing T2 will give differing signal intensities in a gradient-spoiled acquisition (red: T2 values, yellow: intensity windowing). The T1 value also changes as the concentration of MnCl2 is changed; the relative intensities in different bottles therefore varies, as in any GRE sequence.