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Abstract #2509

High Resolution T2 Weighted Lung Imaging with a Radial Turbo Spin-Echo Sequence

Michael Vlker1, Philipp Ehses1, Martin Blaimer2, Felix Breuer2, Peter Michael Jakob1,2

1Department of Experimental Physics 5, University of Wrzburg, Wrzburg, Bavaria, Germany; 2Research Center for Magnetic Resonance Bavaria (MRB), Wrzburg, Germany


A segmented radial Turbo Spin-Echo (rTSE) sequence was investigated towards its feasibility for high resolution lung imaging under free breathing conditions. No triggering techniques were involved to define the limits of the sequence itself. Unlike ultrafast singleshot techniques such as HASTE resolution is not intrinsically limited by the T2 signal decay while motion, especially of the beating heart, poses only a small problem in comparison with conventional Cartesian TSE. In addition, arbitrary T2 contrasts may be generated by postprocessing a single dataset allowing for the calculation of quantitative T2 maps.

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