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Abstract #2863

UTE-SPECIAL for 3D Localization at an Echo Time of 4 ms on a Clinical 3 Tesla Scanner

Karl Landheer1, Ralph Noeske2, Michael Garwood3, and Christoph Juchem1,4
1Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, 2GE Healthcare, Berlin, Germany, 3Center for Magnetic Resonance Research and Radiology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN, United States, 4Radiology, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States

A previously developed magnetic resonance spectroscopy method is improved upon which is now able to obtain spectra with an echo time as short as 4 ms, while recovering the entirety of the available magnetization. This method obtains full 3D spatial localization through a 2D adiabatic inversion pulse which is cycled “on” and “off” every other repetition, in combination with a slice-selective excitation pulse. Both 1D and 2D spectra with an ultrashort echo time of 4 ms are demonstrated at 3T. High quality spectra were obtained for all experiments.

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