Volumetric liver T2-mapping is of interest in the characterization of focal lesions and diffuse disease but remains technically challenging due to respiratory motion. The present work introduces a novel T2-prepared (T2prep) radial stack-of-stars two-point Dixon gradient echo sequence (T2prep-SoS-Dixon-TFE) for achieving motion-robust 3D isotropic T2-mapping in navigator-gated scans using a B0/B1-insusceptible modified adiabatic BIR-4 RF-pulse for T2prep. T2-mapping is performed via dictionary matching to Bloch simulations for the Dixon-decomposed water signal. The proposed method enables motion-robust liver fat confounder-free volumetric T2 quantification in better agreement with MRS compared to GraSE and may improve the clinical applicability of free-breathing abdominal T2-mapping.
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