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Abstract #4995

Towards Practical SEMSI at 0.55 Tesla

Bochao Li1, Kübra Keskin2, Sophia Cui3, Brian A. Hargreaves4, and Krishna S. Nayak1,2
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 3Siemens Healthcare USA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 4Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

Synopsis

Keywords: Artifacts, Low-Field MRI

Motivation: Spectrally-encoded multi-spectral imaging (SEMSI) is an approach for distortion-free MRI around metallic implants, but requires multiple-readouts per TR to be clinically feasible.

Goal(s): To determine the benefits of SEMSI over SEMAC at 0.55T, using parameters that are consistent with a future multi-readout SEMSI implementation.

Approach: We used single-readout SEMSI to prospectively mimic the performance of multi-readout SEMSI with high slew rate and readout bandwidth.

Results: We observe that SEMSI simultaneously achieves the expected SNR improvement and artifacts reduction compared to SEMAC.

Impact: SNR improvement is important at 0.55T to examine the tissues near the metallic implants. This prospective study confirms the improvement performance of multi-readout SEMSI which will further improve SNR and scan efficiency.

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