Abstract #2403

Balanced SSFP-Like Imaging with Simultaneous Water-Fat Separation and Band Reduction Using Small-Tip Fast Recovery

Feng Zhao¹, Hao Sun², Jon-Fredrik Nielsen¹, Jeffrey A. Fessler³, Douglas C. Noll¹

¹Biomedical Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States; ²EECS, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States; ³EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

We propose to use a bSSFP-like imaging sequence, referred to as Small-tip Fast Recovery imaging (STFR), to simultaneously suppress banding artifacts and separate water/fat. This method works for both small and large tip angles, which is advantageous over a recently proposed bSSFP-based fat suppression method called LAMA.