TY - JOUR
T1 - Quantification of moisture distribution in cheese block during cooling using MRI
AU - Chang, Kehua
AU - Ruan, Roger
AU - Chen, Paul L.
AU - Ning, Anrong
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - Fast and accurate mapping of moisture distribution is essential to the study of heat and mass transfer in cheese during cooling. To be fast, the FLASH (fast low flip angle) sequence, a rapid scan MR imaging technique, is used. To acquire moisture-only images, CHESS is added to the FLASH sequence. The resulted image acquisition time is only about 3 seconds as compared with more than 10 minutes for conventional imaging sequence, and the T1 and T2 weighting is minimized in the moisture images acquired. The resulted moisture image of the cheese block is almost free of fat signal contamination.
AB - Fast and accurate mapping of moisture distribution is essential to the study of heat and mass transfer in cheese during cooling. To be fast, the FLASH (fast low flip angle) sequence, a rapid scan MR imaging technique, is used. To acquire moisture-only images, CHESS is added to the FLASH sequence. The resulted image acquisition time is only about 3 seconds as compared with more than 10 minutes for conventional imaging sequence, and the T1 and T2 weighting is minimized in the moisture images acquired. The resulted moisture image of the cheese block is almost free of fat signal contamination.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:0031388618
SN - 0145-0166
VL - 3
JO - Paper - American Society of Agricultural Engineers
JF - Paper - American Society of Agricultural Engineers
T2 - Proceedings of the 1997 ASAE Annual International Meeting. Part 1 (of 3)
Y2 - 10 August 1997 through 14 August 1997
ER -