Abstract #4296

Peripheral Nerve Imaging with 3D Gradient Recalled Echo-Selective Species Imaging Sequence at 3.0T: A Preliminary Study

Hao Shen¹, Guang Cao², Xin Lou³, Ailian Zhang³, Jinfeng Li³, Zhikui Xiao¹, Qian Jiang⁴, Anthony T. Vu⁵

¹Global Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Beijing, China, People's Republic of; ²Global Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Hong Kong, China, People's Republic of; ³Department of Radiology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China, People's Republic of; ⁴MR Modality, GE Healthcare, Shanghai, China, People's Republic of; ⁵MR PSD/Applications Engineering, GE Healthcare, Waukesha, WI, United States

Magnetic resonance nerve imaging is playing an important role in evaluating some diseases of nerves and nerve bundles. In this study, we applied a three-dimensional Gradient Recalled Echo C Selective Species Imaging (GRE-SSI) sequence to image the peripheral nerve on a 3.0T scanner.