Abstract #2185

Meyer C, Kramer C, Sica C

A multislice dark blood vessel wall imaging sequence with spiral readouts was developed. Adouble inversion block was used to null the blood signal, with either one or five 3 mm thickslices acquired per DIR block. The SNR and flow suppression were good at a resolution of 0.39 mm, The efficiency of spirals allow for more slices to be nulled following a giveninversion block, and the short TE leads to a high signal from the vessel wall.