Matthew David Blackledge1, David Higgins2,
Dow-Mu Koh1, Nandita M. deSouza1, Martin O. Leach1,
David J. Collins1
1CR-UK and EPSRC Cancer Imaging Centre,
Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, Surrey,
United Kingdom; 2Philips Healthcare, Guildford, Surrey, United
Kingdom
A
variety of fat suppression techniques including STIR, SPIR, SPAIR and SSGR
used alone or in combination are investigated for use in large field of view
Diffusion Weighted Imaging at 3.0T. We
conclude that a combinatorial approach improves results. A combination of
STIR and SPIR works well and can be further improved used in combination with
SSGR. All methods would benefit from improved shimming over large field of
view to reduce off-resonance attenuation effects.