FIG. 3.
Comparison of relative error in R2* measurements for GRE and UTE methods listed in Table 1, using their respective fit models. For high R2* values, GRE-A and GRE-C overestimated whereas GRE-B underestimated R2* values, with underestimation or overestimation increasing with decreasing SNR. UTE-A showed the highest accuracy over the entire R2* range for all SNRs, whereas UTE-B was accurate only for high R2* and SNR.