Abstract #1945

Spectrally-Selective IR Diffusion-Weighted Imaging with SSFP of Bone Marrow at 3T

Yousef Mazaheri¹, Jan Grimm², Ersin Bayram³, David M. Panicek², Jason A. Koutcher¹, Hedvig Hricak²

¹Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA; ²Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA; ³GE Healthcare, Wakesau, WI, USA

The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of diffusion-weighted imaging of bone marrow with a spectrally selective IR pulse SSFP sequence at 3T. The effectiveness of diffusion measurements with this technique was shown on phantoms and in vivo.