Abstract #4992

High-resolution quantitative maps of magnetisation transfer, R1 and R2* of the cervical spinal cord in clinically feasible acquisition time using vendor-provided sequences

Daniel Papp¹, Alex Kenneth Smith¹, Romina Mariano¹, and Stuart Clare¹

¹Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Here, we present a fast multi-parameter quantitative MRI protocol to estimate R1, R2* and MT saturation in the cervical spinal cord, acquired using only vendor-supplied sequences, in clinically acceptable acquisition times (~11 minutes total). The proposed protocol can be easily adapted to clinical scanners, and requires only stock sequences and freely available post-processing tools, and is faster than a comparable protocol required for PSR mapping in a qMT framework.

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