Wataru Fukumoto W, et al. – Researchers carried out a prospective phantom and volunteer study to evaluate the accuracy of quantification of the salivary volume flow rate (VFR) applying the time–spatial labeling inversion pulse (Time–SLIP) technique in phantoms and to examine the feasibility of its use in human subjects. It was indicated that the salivary VFR could be obtained using the Time–SLIP technique when salivary flow was stimulated with citric acid in normal volunteers.