Meeting Banner
Abstract #1730

Localized Filtering for Optimal Fat Suppression in Parallel 1H MRSI

MAGNA25Thomas Kirchner1, Anke Henning1, Peter Boesiger1

1Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland


A striking manifestation of the voxel-bleeding effect in MRSI in vivo is subcranial fat signal falsely appearing in a voxel in the center of the brain. We developed a localized filtering technique for the suppression of fat artefacts. Unlike k-space apodization techniques, we achieve artifact suppression without incurring fat signal spread at the edge of the object.

Keywords