Abstract #2987

Fast multi-contrast EPI protocol: Preliminary experience with acute intracranial pathologies in the emergency department.

Otto Rapalino¹, Julian He¹, Pamela Schaefer¹, Matthew Christensen¹, Arnaud Guidon², Stefan Skare³, Tim Sprenger⁴, John Kirsch¹, and Ramon Gilberto Gonzalez¹

¹Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States, ²GE Healthcare, Boston, MA, United States, ³Karolinska Institute, Karolinska, Sweden, ⁴Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Prospective analysis of the diagnostic performance of a fast multi-contrast EPI sequence compared to conventional sequences. A sample of 30 cases (out of 190) was evaluated and head-to-head comparisons were performed for the visualization of clinically relevant intracranial pathologies. Our findings suggest that this multi-contrast EPI sequence could potentially provide an acceptable diagnostic alternative to the core conventional brain MRI sequences in selected populations that cannot tolerate long MRI examinations in the Emergency Department.

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