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Abstract #2923

Chemical Shift Based Water-Fat Separation with an Undersampled Acquisition

Catherine J. Moran1, Ethan K. Brodsky, 12, Huanzhou Yu3, Scott B. Reeder, 12, Richard X. Kijowski2, Walter F. Block1,4

1Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States; 2Radiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States; 3Global Applied Sciences Lab, GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, CA, United States; 4Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States


The chemical shift based IDEAL decomposition method generally requires redundant sampling at multiple time points. A unique undersampled radial k-space trajectory at each echo time provides a means to accelerate data acquisition while still allowing for robust chemical species decomposition. In this work we present a dual-pass dual-half-echo radial acquisition which utilizes undersampled source images with IDEAL to achieve bSSFP images with high isotropic resolution and robust fat-water separation in the breast and knee.

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