Abstract #3968

Multicontrast Keyhole Imaging Enables Economy of Acquisition Time Up to 50% in Standard Diagnostic MRI-Knee Protocols.

Uwe Schuetz¹, Axel Bornstedt², Volker Rasche²

¹Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany; ²Internal Medicine II, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Based on MRI of the knee joint, it is demonstrated, how the use of a specific multi-contrast keyhole imaging technique that uses high- and low-frequency components of the k-space for different contrast weightings separately, can produce substantial time savings up to 50% in native diagnostic MRI-knee protocol maintaining similar subjective contrast quality of individual sequences.