Philipp
Ehses1, Vikas Gulani2, Peter Michael Jakob1,
Mark A. Griswold2, Felix A. Breuer3
1Dept. of Experimental Physics 5,
Universitt Wrzburg, Wrzburg, Germany; 2Department of Radiology,
Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland,
Cleveland, OH, United States; 3Research Center Magnetic Resonance
Bavaria (MRB),, Wrzburg, Germany
The
IR TrueFISP sequence has been shown to be a promising approach for the
simultaneous quantification of proton density, T1 and T2
maps. However, delays between individual segments are required in order to
allow the magnetization to recover, resulting in relatively long scan times.
Recently, a modified IR TrueFISP method has been proposed, which does not
necessitate relaxation delays. This method was combined with a radial
stack-of-stars acquisition with golden-ratio based profile order, in order to
rapidly obtain a full set of parameter maps of the brain in three dimensions.