Abstract #2888
            The high resolution 3D Rat Spine diffusion study by Utilizing Wideband MRI Technique
                       Po Wei Cheng                       1,2                      , Yung Hao Chuang                       1,2                      , 						Yun An Huang                       2,3                      , Edzer L. Wu                       2                      , Tzi 						Dar Chiueh                       3                      , and Jyh Horng Chen                       1,2           
            
             1
            
            Graduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering 
						and Bioinformatics,National Taiwan University, Taipei, 
						Taiwan, Taiwan,
            
             2
            
            Interdisciplinary 
						MRI/MRS Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, 
						National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan,
            
             3
            
            Department 
						of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 
						Taipei, Taiwan
           
            
           Diffusion tensor imaging or diffusion weighted imaging 
						was used to study the tissue orientation and the 
						diffusivity properties. However, the long scan time for 
						applying different diffusion gradient in diffusion 
						weighted imaginglimit the clinical application in spine, 
						especially high resolutionimaging and 3D modeling. In 
						this study, we applied the accelerated technique single 
						carrier Wideband MRI with W=5acceleration on the 3D rat 
						spine diffusion study. The results demonstrated the 
						capacity to acquire 3D DTI imaging on rat spine by using 
						Wideband MRI technique, it also reduced the scan time 
						from 22.5 hours to 4.5 hours. We are looking into higher 
						acceleration rate and higher imaging resolution of rat 
						spinal diffusion study, and implementing on the clinical 
						study in the near future.
          
				
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