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Abstract #4616

Rapid, Multi-Slice Fat Water Separated Imaging for Mapping Body Fat

Peter Kellman1, Diego Hernando2, Saurabh Shah3, Z-P Liang2, David A. Bluemke1, Andrew E. Arai1

1National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States; 2University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States; 3Siemens Medical Solutions, Chicago, IL, United States


A rapid multi-slice fat/water separated imaging protocol has been developed for mapping body fat with application to obesity studies. The method combines a 3-echo GRE acquisition and parallel imaging to scan the abdomen and chest in <30 sec. A recently developed joint estimation method for water/fat separation is able to perform robustly in the presence of large B0 field inhomogeneities.