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Abstract #4562

Quantitative and synthetic MRI using a Multi-Pathway Multi-Echo (MPME) acquisition followed by machine-learning contrast translation

Cheng-Chieh Cheng1, Frank Preiswerk1, and Bruno Madore1

1Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

Brain exams would ideally include 3D quantitative maps of several basic MR parameters, such as T1, T2, T2* and B0, along with popular qualitative contrasts such as MPRAGE and FLAIR, for example. A multi-pathway multi-echo (MPME) pulse sequence was developed that captured vast amounts of information about the imaged object relatively fast, but not necessarily with image contrasts that radiologists might be comfortable reading. A neural network was trained to act as a ‘contrast translator’, to convert information rapidly obtained from MPME scans into useful quantitative and qualitative contrasts, in effect condensing a whole exam into a single 3D scan.

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