The invention relates to a method for obtaining contrast agent relaxation time. The method comprises the following steps: automatically identifying a contrast agent sample in an image, precisely positioning a sample center point, and calculating the
radius of a sample
test tube, automatically selecting ROI (
Region of Interest) by the center point of the
test tube as the center according to the
radius of the
test tube, calculating the mean value of a pixel
signal in the ROI, and experimenting a standard deviation; and finally, carrying out nonlinear fitting to an automatically-extracted
signal, and accurately, quickly and efficiently calculating a
spinning-lattice relaxation time T1 value and a
spinning-lattice relaxation time T2 value of the contrast agent. A process that a plurality of samples are identified in the image and the ROI of the samples is selected is a computer
automation process, an artificial process is omitted, and the positioning accuracy, the ROI shape consistency and the result accuracy of the invention are far better than those of a traditional method. The whole flow from ROI selection and ROI
signal extraction to the nonlinear fitting is a fully-automatic process, and the
time efficiency of the method is far higher than the
time efficiency of the traditional method.