Michael Carl1, Jiang Du2, Kevin
Koch3
1Global Applied Science
Laboratory, GE Healthcare, San Diego, CA, United States; 2University
of California, San Diego, United States; 3Global Applied Science
Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Waukesha, WI, United States
We investigated the potential combination of 3D UTE with MAVRIC to image short T2 tissues surrounding orthopedic implants with reduced susceptibility artifacts. Phantom experiments were performed containing a stainless steel plate immersed in agarose gel and imaged at 3T. Our studies show that these two techniques may be combined to harvest their respective advantages.