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Abstract #2255

High Resolution 3D Intracranial Imaging at 3.0T

Yiu-Cho Chung1, Steven Shea2, Ye Qiao3, Orlando P. Simonetti4, Bruce Wasserman3

1Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Columbus, OH, United States; 2Siemens Corporate Research, United States; 3Johns Hopkins University, United States; 4The Ohio State University, United States Minor Outlying Islands


Intracranial artery imaging is usually done by 2DTSE. However, the technique has long scan time, and has very limited anatomical coverage. We propose here the use of T1w-SPACE, a variant of TSE, for 3D imaging of the intracranial vessels. Using a 32 channel head coil at 3.0T, the technique achieves a spatial resolution of (0.5mm)3, comparable to CT, in less than 11minutes. The technique can cover both sides of the tortuous ICA and MCA in one scan. SNR comparison found that the 3D technique has consistently higher SNR than 2DTSE.