Keigo Kawaji1, Thanh D. Nguyen2,
Beatriu Reig2, Pascal Spincemaille2, Priscilla A.
Winchester2, Martin R. Prince2, Yi Wang1,2
1Biomedical Engineering, Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY, United States; 2Radiology, Weill Cornell
Medical College, New York, NY, United States
T2prep
Inversion Recovery (T2IR) is a magnetization preparation technique that combines
two preparations: T2prep and Inversion Recovery, in order to provide both T1
and T2 contrasts. Subsequently, T2IR
provides flow-insensitive global black-blood suppression suited for slow flow
at the expense of SNR, being suitable for 3D volumetric black-blood imaging
of vessel walls where slow blood flow is observed. In this study, we examined the performance
of using a T2IR preparation in both FSE and SSFP sequences to image a large
3D coronal volume (20cm x 20cm x 5.2cm) at a submillimeter isotropic spatial
resolution of 0.8mm.