Jolle Karine Barral1, Mohammad Mehdi
Khalighi2, Ron D. Watkins3, Michael Lustig1,4,
Bob S. Hu, 1,5, Dwight G. Nishimura1
1Electrical Engineering, Stanford
University, Stanford, CA, United States; 2Applied Science
Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, CA, United States; 3Radiology,
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States; 4Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States; 5Palo
Alto Medical Foundation, Palo Alto, CA, United States
When
high field strengths and small transmit-receive coils are used, SNR is no
longer the sole limit to high-resolution imaging. Chemical shift and motion
artifacts become major concerns. To address these concerns, a Cartesian
gradient echo pulse sequence was designed with interleaved echoes for
fat/water separation and interleaved navigators for motion correction. In
vivo skin images with 100 μm isotropic resolution (1 nL) are presented.
Fat/water separation allows the clear delineation of the different skin
layers while motion correction effectively removes blurring.