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Abstract #3964

Echo-planar spectroscopic imaging with flyback readout: ghost peaks and micro-imaging

Jan Weis1, Magor Babos2, Sergio Estrada3, and Ram Kumar Selvaraju3
1Department of Medical Physics, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden, 2Mediso Medical Imaging Systems, Budapest, Hungary, 3Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Preclinical PET-MRI Platform, Uppsala, Sweden

Synopsis

Keywords: Biology, Models, Methods, Data Acquisition, EPSI, flyback readout, ghost artifacts, micro-imaging, water-fat imaging

Motivation: To assess echo-planar spectroscopic imaging (EPSI) with flyback readout gradients in preclinical MR system.

Goal(s): To demonstrate spectral ghost artifacts produced by two, three, and four interleaved gradient echo trains and to measure water, fat, and water-fat shift artifacts free images.

Approach: Flyback EPSI with two, three, and four interleaved gradient echo trains.

Results: The proposed approach with four interleaved gradient echo trains and with four echoes in each train enables high spectral bandwidth in combination with narrow receiver bandwidth and a very good water/fat signals separation. It improves SNR without the undesired consequence of water-fat shift artifacts.

Impact: Echo-planar spectroscopic imaging with flyback readout enables measurement of water, fat, and water-fat shift artifact-free images. Four interleaved echo trains with four echoes in each train provide high spectral, and narrow receiver bandwidth, and a very good water-fat separation.

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