Abstract #0244

T1-Weighted Imaging of Lumbar Spine Using Multiband Slice Accelerated Spin Echo

Dingxin Wang¹,², Peter D. Kollasch³, Edward J. Auerbach², Steen Moeller², Bhat Himanshu⁴, Kamil Ugurbil², Vibhas Deshpande⁵

¹Siemens Medical Solution USA, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, United States; ²Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States; ³Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, United States; ⁴Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Charlestown, MA, United States; ⁵Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Austin, TX, United States

Our study demonstrates the clinical application of multiband slice accelerated SE for T1-weighted lumbar spine imaging. Better T1 contrast can be achieved was this newly developed sequence than clinical standard TSE.