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Abstract #0865

T2-Weighted Fat Suppressed Balanced SSFP Imaging (Contrast-Prepared SSFP) for Interventional Guidance

Di Xu1, Clifford R. Weiss2, Ozan Sayin1, Wesley D. Gilson3, Jonathan S. Lewin2, Elliot R. McVeigh1, Daniel A. Herzka4

1Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States; 2Radiology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States; 3Siemens Corporation, Corporate Technology, Baltimore, MD, United States; 4Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States


T2-weighted fat suppressed MR images are diagnostically relevant in lesion and critical structure characterization in vascular anomalies, oncology, and cardiology, etc. Current techniques used in MR-guided interventions have limited T2 contrast and fat suppression (e.g SSFP), are slow (e.g. T2W-TSE), or yield blurry images and inferior speed (HASTE). Hence, an imaging technique with sufficient speed for real-time procedure guidance in addition to T2 contrast and fat suppression is of interest. We present contrast-prepared SSFP (CP-SSFP), a technique for interventional guidance incorporating several technical improvements. The technique is evaluated on phantoms and patients undergoing therapeutic or diagnostic imaging for vascular malformations.