(DENSE) Displacement Encoding with Stimulated Echoes is a functional cardiac MRIpulse sequence, used to create maps of myocardial displacement with high resolution.
The DENSE magnitude images produce black blood images to show better myocard-blood contrast and to reduce motion artifacts.
(FRE) Flow related enhancement could be seen most for blood flow, but also for other liquids with some MRimaging techniques, as an increase in intensity due to the washout of saturated spins. FRE provides positive contrast ("bright blood") of vascular details in time of flight MRA as well as the physiologic characterization of blood flow.
If stationary spins within the scanned region experience only an incomplete T1 relaxation between the repeated radio frequency (RF) excitations, this results in fewer signal of the stationary tissue (compared to inflowing blood with completely relaxed spins).
The degree of the flow related enhancement is proportional to the blood flowvelocity and the used repetition time. The use of flow compensation (gradient moment nulling) improves the FRE especially in gradient echosequences.