Abstract #0081

3D UTE Cones-IDEAL Imaging of the Knee and Ankle joints: Fast Volumetric Imaging with Robust Fat/water Separation

Qun He^1,2, Michael Carl³, Graeme Bydder¹, and Jiang Du¹

¹University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States, ²Ningbo Jansen NMR Technology Co., Ltd., Cixi, Zhejiang, China, People's Republic of, ³Global MR Applications & Workflow, General Electric, San Diego, CA, United States

UTE sequences combined with IDEAL processing produces high contrast images of short T₂ tissues or tissue components such as menisci, ligaments, and tendons. In this work, we report the use of 3D UTE Cones imaging and IDEAL processing (3D Cones-IDEAL) for volumetric imaging of short T₂ tissues in the knee and ankle joints at 3T. High resolution volumetric imaging of the knee and ankle joints, together with robust fat/water separation, field map estimation, R₂*/T₂* mapping and fat fraction mapping are demonstrated.

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