Abstract #1346

T2 Mapping of the Lung in Breath-Hold Time Using Radial TSE Acquisition and Nonlinear Inversion Reconstruction

Michael Vlker¹, Shermiyah Baguisa², Martin Blaimer¹, Felix Breuer¹, Peter Jakob¹,³

¹Magnetic Resonance Bavaria, Wrzburg, Germany; ²Department of Physics, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada; ³Department of Experimental Physics 5, University of Wrzburg, Germany

We show that fast T₂ relaxometry of the human lung is feasible using an efficient radial TSE sequence for data acquisition followed by a model-based nonlinear reconstruction approach. T₂ maps for multiple slices were obtained in one single breathhold of 13s.