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Figure 9. T1 recovery curves following 180° inversion pulse. a, Tissue with a short T1 value (dashed arrow) and that with a long T1 value (solid arrow) have negative longitudinal magnetization and are assigned different pixel values. b, Tissue with a short T1 value (dashed arrow) has positive longitudinal magnetization, and tissue with a long T1 value (solid arrow) has negative longitudinal magnetization. Phase sensitive image reconstruction assigns different pixel values. Magnitude image reconstruction assigns equal pixel values. c, Tissue with a short T1 value (dashed arrow) has positive longitudinal magnetization, and tissue with a long T1 value has zero longitudinal magnetization and contributes no signal intensity to the image.