Michael Carl1, Nikolaus M. Szeverenyi2,
Jiang Du2, Olivier M. Girard2, Won Bae2,
Graeme M. Bydder2
1Global Applied Science
Laboratory, GE Healthcare, San Diego, CA, United States; 2University
of California, San Diego, United States
We report our initial experience with susceptibility weighted imaging of short T2 tissues. Adult human subjects and human tissue samples were imaged in a 3T clinical MR system using ultrashort TE sequences. UTE phase contrast is obtained from phase accrued during the RF excitation and readout part of the sequence. The mechanism of the changes may be related to tissue order and reflect the underlying physical chemistry of collagen.