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Abstract #0515

Simultaneous Multiple Resonance Frequency (SMURF) imaging: Fat-water imaging using multi-band principles

Beata Bachrata1,2,3, Bernhard Strasser1,2,4, Wolfgang Bogner1,2, Albrecht Ingo Schmid1,5, Siegfried Trattnig1,2,3, and Simon Daniel Robinson1,2,6,7
1High Field MR Centre, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 2Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 3Christian Doppler Laboratory for Clinical Molecular MR Imaging, Vienna, Austria, 4Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States, 5Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 6Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 7Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Imaging of body regions containing both water-based and fat-based structures is affected by artefacts arising from the chemical shift difference between water and fat. Recently, a single-echo water-fat separation technique was proposed which used multi-band principles to generate separate water and fat images as well as chemical shift-corrected, recombined water-fat images. We demonstrate the performance of gradient-echo and turbo spin-echo variants of this approach in the knee, breasts and abdomen. The separation of water and fat was similar to or better than with current state-of-the-art techniques and chemical shift effects were fully eliminated in recombined water-fat images.

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