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Abstract #0053

Combining ZOOPPA and Blipped CAIPIRINHA for Highly Accelerated Diffusion Weighted Imaging at 7T and 3T

Cornelius Eichner1, 2, Kawin Setsompop2, 3, Peter J. Koopmans4, Alfred Anwander1, Ralf Ltzkendorf5, Steven F. Cauley6, Himanshu Bhat7, David G. Norris4, Robert Turner1, Lawrence L. Wald2, 3, Robin Martin Heidemann1, 8

1Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; 2Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, United States; 3Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; 4Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, Netherlands; 5Otto v. Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany; 6Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States; 7Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, PA, United States; 8Siemens Healthcare Sector, Erlangen, Germany


The ZOOPPA technique provides highly resolved dMRI data at 7T, but whole-brain data sets take a long time to acquire. EPI volume acquisition time can be greatly reduced using blipped CAIPIRINHA. We have implemented combined ZOOPPA and CAIPIRINHA, enabling highly resolved and accelerated acquisition of dMRI data at 7T.