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Abstract #3155

An Efficient, Robust, and Reproducible Quantitative Radial T1 Mapping Technique

Mahesh Bharath Keerthivasan1, Marcel Dominik Nickel2, Fei Han3, Xiaodong Zhong3, Maria Altbach4, Berthold Kiefer2, and Vibhas Deshpande5
1Siemens Healthcare USA, Tucson, AZ, United States, 2Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, Germany, 3Siemens Healthcare USA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 4University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, 5Siemens Healthcare USA, Austin, TX, United States

There has been renewed interest in the estimation of T1 relaxation times as a quantitative method for characterization of pathologies in the abdomen. While various techniques have been presented for T1 mapping they have not been systematically evaluated. In this work, we present a multi-slice radial Look-Locker FLASH technique for robust and reproducible abdominal T1 mapping. We investigate the effect of various pulse sequence and reconstruction parameters on the T1 estimation performance.

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