Anthony N Price1,2, Shaihan J Malik2, Jana Hutter2, Martin Bührer3, Lucilio Cordero-Grande2, Rui Teixeira2, Emer J Hughes1, Mary A Rutherford1, and Joseph V Hajnal1,2
1Centre for the Developing Brain, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, 2Biomedical Engineering, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, 3GyroTools, Zurich, Switzerland
Single-shot Turbo Spin-Echo (ss-TSE)
sequences can provide excellent anatomical images of the fetal brain. However,
due to the surrounding maternal tissue, full field of view encoding leads to
long echo train lengths, impacting efficiency, causing high SAR and increased
risk of motion artefact. In this abstract we present the implementation of multiband
accelerated ss-TSE of the fetal brain, with a zoom variant that reduces both overall
scan time and the need to encode a large FOV. In addition simultaneous sampling
multiple slice locations should benefit the image registration step in subsequent
3D slice-to-volume reconstructions.
