Abstract #3719

A rapid, whole-brain look-locker method for T1 mapping using inversion recovery EPIK

N. Jon Shah^1,2 and Seong Dae Yun¹

¹Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Medical Imaging Physics (INM-4), Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich, Germany, ²Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, JARA, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Quantitative measurement of the T₁ relaxation time is of great importance for the clinical diagnosis or optimisation of image contrast. Numerous Look-Locker method have been proposed for T₁ mapping. One of them demonstrated by the community is TAPIR which has been shown to be fast and robust. However, TAPIR still demands substantial acquisition time for whole-brain coverage. This work aims to develop a fast Look-Locker method with whole-brain coverage on a basis of EPIK. It was shown that the proposed method acquired whole-brain T₁ data (2.1 mm² resolution × 50 slices × 30 time-points) within 3.5 minutes.

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