Abstract #0785

A Sequence for High Quality Gradient Echo Myelin Water Imaging (GRE-MWI) at 3T and 7T

Hyeong-Geol Shin¹, Se-Hong Oh², Masaki Fukunaga³, Doohee Lee¹, Yoonho Nam⁴, Sooyeon Ji¹, Woojin Jung¹, and Jongho Lee¹

¹Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ²Biomedical Engineering, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ³Division of Cerebral Integration, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan, ⁴Department of Radiology, Seoul St.Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea

In this study, we propose an eddy current compensated 2D GRE-MWI sequence and demonstrate that the sequence is robust to physiological noises. The resulting myelin water fraction maps at 3T and 7T shows high quality images at high resolution (2 × 2 × 2 mm³ at 3T and 1.5 × 1.5 × 2 mm³ at 7T).

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