Several methods for rapid simultaneous quantification of proton density, T1 and T2 maps from a single acquisition have emerged recently, allowing for retrospective synthesis of MR images with any desired contrast weighting from these maps. This work adapts a 2D fast spin echo based mapping method to spine MRI where scans are typically long and prone to artifacts. Outer volume suppression was incorporated to be able to save time by encoding only the anatomy of interest without aliasing concerns. Interleaved k-t sampling and virtual coil methods were explored to overcome limited coil acceleration capability and to further increase scan productivity.
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