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Abstract #3667

3T Coronary MRA Using 3D Multi-Interleaved Multi-Echo Acquisition and VARPRO Fat-Water Separation

Saurabh Shah1, Xiaoming Bi1, Diego Hernando2, Peter Weale1, Sven Zuehlsdorff1, Sonia Nielles-Vallespin3, Peter Kellman4

1Siemens Healthcare, Chicago, IL, United States; 2University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States; 3Royal Brompton And Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom; 4National Institutes of Health / NHLBI, Bethesda, MD, United States


A 3D free-breathing navigator-gated multi-interleaved multi-echo GRE sequence is implemented with VARPRO fat-water separation and utilized in targeted acquisition of coronary arteries at 3T. This approach achieves reliable fat-suppression across field-of-view and provides clear depiction of coronaries for enhanced visualization.

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