Abstract #3863

High Temporal Frame Rate 3D Spiral Head and Neck Magnetic Resonance Angiography: Initial Experience

Bo Xu¹,², Pascal Spincemaille², Nanda Deepa Thimmappa², Martin Prince², Yi Wang¹,²

¹Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States; ²Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, United States

Time resolved contrast enhanced intracranial MR angiography is particularly challenging because of the short arterial-venous time interval. In this work, a 3D spiral Temporal Resolution Acceleration with Constrained Evolution Reconstruction (TRACER) acquisition is presented resulting in a very high temporal frame rate head and neck MR angiogram.