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Abstract #4885

Fast and High-Resolution Intracranial MR Angiography at 7T using FLEXA

Naoyuki Takei1, Brian Burns2, Nathan T Roberts3, Xucheng Zhu2, and Tetsuya Wakayama4
1GE HealthCare, Tokyo, Japan, 2GE HealthCare, Menlo Park, CA, United States, 3GE HealthCare, Waukesha, WI, United States, 4GE HealthCare, Hino, Japan

Synopsis

Keywords: High-Field MRI, High-Field MRI, 7T, 3DTOF, Non-contrast MRA, High gradient performance, microvascular

Motivation: Non-contrast 3DTOF demonstrates visualizing the cerebral microvasculature at 7T MRI, but the scan time is too long, typically about 10 minutes due to requiring high spatial resolution.

Goal(s): Our goal was to reduce the acquisition time by a factor of 2.

Approach: We utilize FLEXA on the high gradient performance system at 7T.

Results: Comparable image quality to 3DTOF was obtained with FLEXA technique with a factor of 2 decrease in acquisition time.

Impact: The improvement in acquisition speed through FLEXA comes from the strategy of short TR with thin slab and opens new standard for scan protocol optimization at 7T MRA.

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