Morwan Choli1, Felix A. Breuer1,
Daniel Neumann2, Michael Bock3, Claudia M. Hillenbrand4,
Ralf B. Loeffler4, Peter M. Jakob2,5
1Research Center Magnetic Resonance
Bavaria e.V (MRB) , Wuerzburg, Germany; 2Dept. of Experimental
Physiks 5, University of Wrzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany; 3Department
of Medical Physics in Radiology, , German Cancer Research Center (dkfz),
Heidelberg, Germany; 4Department of Radiological Sciences,
Division of Translational Imaging Research, Memphis, TN, United States; 5Research
Center Magnetic Resonance Bavaria e.V (MRB), Wuerzburg, Germany
Higher
field strength comes along with increase of the deposited SAR energy.
Important imaging sequences like TSE with numerous refocusing pulses are only
exercisable with limitations of the parameters at the expense of image
quality to protect patients. In this work it is shown that it is possible to
obtain high resolution in vivo images on a 7T scanner with an almost equal
signal behavior in a combined acquisition technique (CAT) hybrid sequence
consisting of a TSE module and an EPI module with SAR saving of 27%.