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Abstract #0310

Suppression of High Intensity Flow Artifacts in Subtractionless First-Pass Peripheral Angiography with Dual-Echo Dixon Imaging

Holger Eggers1, Peter Boernert2, Tim Leiner3

1Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany; 2Philips Research, Hamburg, Germany; 3Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands


Due to stringent scan time constraints, flow artifact suppression by moment nulling of the gradients is usually not applied in subtraction first-pass peripheral angiography, since it prolongs echo and repetition times. In this work, a recently proposed subtractionless approach to first-pass peripheral angiography based on dual-echo Dixon imaging is shown to allow an efficient, retrospective elimination of especially high intensity ghosting from pulsatile flow, without requiring changes to the bipolar dual-gradient-echo acquisition employed for chemical shift encoding.