Abstract #0766

Rapid Carotid Artery T2 and T1 Mapping Using a Radial TSE and IR-FLASH Approach

Maria I Altbach^1,2, Sagar Mandava³, Kevin J Johnson⁴, Zhitao Li³, Mahesh B Keerthivasan³, Jennifer Becker¹, Ali Bilgin^1,2,3, and Craig Weinkauf⁵

¹Department of Medical Imaging, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, ²Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, ³Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, ⁴Siemens Medical Solutions, Tucson, AZ, United States, ⁵Department of Surgery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States

Defining carotid plaque characteristics predictive of stroke using non-invasive MR imaging is clinically relevant, but has been mostly limited to qualitative visualization of signal intensity in multi-contrast MR images. Here we present two robust and fast T2 and T1 mapping techniques based on radial data acquisition and demonstrate them in terms of carotid plaque characterization.

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