19F-MRI constitutes a viable platform for quantitative theranostics. However, being impaired by physiological absence, and complex NMR spectra of perfluorocarbons, for 19F-MR it is essential to achieve high imaging efficiency. This work introduces a novel spectroscopic imaging sequence, BaSSI, that resides on a balanced psuedo-spiral acquisition scheme and compares against 3D balanced UTE SSFP imaging, that has become the golden standard of fluorine imaging. The work, optimizes both sequences to their fullest, and tests their performance using miniscule samples of PFOB.
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