Abstract #1840

Towards robust c-spine imaging with Cartesian sampling

Guobin Li¹, Zhaopeng Li¹, Chaohong Wang¹, Yang Xin¹, Shuheng Zhang¹, Weijun Zhang¹, Xiaodong Zhou¹, and Weiguo Zhang¹

¹Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare Co., Ltd, Shanghai, China, People's Republic of

C-spine imaging is demanding due to artifacts from CSF flow, patient’s swallowing etc., especially in FSE sequence with inversion recovery. By increasing the excitation thickness in FSE sequence, two concomitant saturation bands are realized at both sides of each image slice, which suppress the moving CSF. Furthermore, a snapshot k-space ordering is proposed to further improve the stability of c-spine imaging against irregular flow of CSF and patient’s bulk motion.

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