Abstract #2665

Simultaneous multi-slice carotid vessel wall MRI with DIR-FSE

Sagar Mandava¹, Mahesh Bharath Keerthivasan¹, Kevin Johnson², Diego R. Martin³, Ali Bilgin^1,3,4, and Maria I. Altbach³

¹Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, ²Siemens Healthcare, Tucson, AZ, United States, ³Medical Imaging, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, ⁴Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States

The DIR-FSE sequence is popularly used to assess plaque build up but is known to be a single slice technique due to a non-selective inversion pulse used in the DIR module. In this work we present a technique to improve the SNR efficiency of DIR-FSE sequences by multi-band excitation. The proposed technique can generate multiple slices at the exact null point of blood and the acquired data can be used to create upto 16 TE images and T2 maps for all the acquired slices.

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