Abstract #1235

Quantitative Cardiac Diffusion Imaging Using Double Echo Steady-State Free Precession

Hendrikus J.A. Crooijmans¹, Thomas Ruder²,³, Sandra Mathier³, Michael Thali², Oliver Bieri¹

¹Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Division of Radiological Physics, University of Basel Hospital, Basel, Switzerland; ²Department of Medicine and Imaging, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Zrich, Zrich, Switzerland; ³Department of Medicine and Imaging, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Quantitative diffusion imaging using a dwDESS sequence is relaxation time independent. In contrast to other SSFP diffusion imaging methods it uses both primary echo paths. Both direction dependent and direction independent diffusion maps can be generated from dwDESS acquisitions.