Patent ID: 7400145

Claim:
A computer-accessible medium having executable instructions to generate a sequence of medical two-dimensional images, the executable instructions capable of directing a processor to perform: receiving the sequence of the two-dimensional magnetic resonance images, wherein a subset of the images is inverted for spin lock durations and the remainder of the images are not inverted for spin lock durations; and generating a signal that has a fixed multiplicative T1 factor for a fixed t a and being uncontaminated by T2ρ saturation by generating T1ρ maps from the two-dimensional magnetic resonance images that can be described by M z (t a ) as 2M z prep e −ta/T1 , wherein t a represents a time between an end of magnetization preparation and image acquisition, wherein M z prep represents a Z magnetization immediately after magnetization preparation, and wherein e −ta/T1 represents a constant for fixed t a , wherein the computer-accessible medium improves quantitative accuracy of multi-slice imaging.