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Abstract #4454

High Resolution 2D CTPRESS with 2D Spiral Encoding

Trina Kok1, Borjan Gagoski1, Elfar Adalsteinsson1, 2

1EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States; 2Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States


32-element receive coil arrays offer significant SNR gains over birdcage coils, which can be traded for faster scans of improved spatial resolution. Here we demonstrate in vivo 2D CTPRESS on a 3T Siemens Tim Trio with spiral encoding at a spatial resolution of 0.85cc with minimum scan time of 5:16min. Four averages were taken for improved SNR, resulting in a total scan time of 20:32min.