Abstract #0623

3D whole liver black blood imaging: a 3 min solution consisting of respiratory triggering and free breathing imaging techniques

Li Jiang¹, Chenguang Zhao¹, Andy Jiang¹, Ming Yang¹, Wengu Su¹, Allan Jin¹, Ping Yang¹, Stephon Xu¹, and Feng Huang¹

¹Philips Healthcare (Suzhou), Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, People's Republic of

Liver black blood imaging helps to detect and characterize focal liver lesions and thus is highly desirable clinically. The commonly used low b-value DWI sequence is limited due to inherent limitations of EPI, such as low spatial resolution and motion artifacts including blurring and ghosting. We proposed a 3D whole liver black blood imaging solution within 3 min. By combining with existing black blood preparation, a respiratory triggered VISTA sequence and a free breathing imaging technique utilizing GROWL reconstruction were proposed. Six healthy volunteers with stable and irregular respiration were scanned to further validate the feasibility of our proposed solution.

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