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Abstract #2913

Cardiac Imaging with Chemical Shift Based Water-Fat Separation at 3T

Karl Kristopher Vigen1, Chris J. Francois1, Ann Shimakawa2, Huanzhou Yu2, Scott K. Nagle1, Mark L. Schiebler1, Scott B. Reeder1,3

1Radiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States; 2Applied Science Lab, GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, CA, United States; 3Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States


Chemical shift based water-fat separation methods have recently been demonstrated for 1.5T cardiac imaging. Higher field strengths (most notably 3T) are increasingly used in cardiac imaging, but water-fat separation techniques can be challenging due to proportionately higher resonance frequency offsets. An interleaved multi-echo sequence using the IDEAL water-fat method has been developed for cardiac imaging at 3T and applied to the evaluation of delayed-enhancement imaging and other fat-containing pathologies.

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