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Abstract #0824

Double Echo Steady State (DESS) Cones for Non-Contrast-Enhanced Breast MRI

Catherine Judith Moran1, Christopher M Sandino2, Joseph Cheng1, Marcus T Alley1, Bruce Daniel1, and Brian A. Hargreaves1
1Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, 2Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

Breast MRI without a contrast injection has the potential to increase accessibility and compliance to the method in women who are recommended to undergo annual MRI to screen for breast cancer. Steady-state diffusion weighted methods provide robust image quality in comparison to conventional diffusion weighted methods which can suffer from variable image quality due to distortion, blurring and low-resolution. Double Echo Steady State (DESS) acquisition with a cones k-space trajectory is investigated for non-contrast enhanced breast MRI in 30 women undergoing clinically indicated breast MRIs.

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