E. Brian Welch1,
2, Aliya Gifford, 23, Johan Berglund4, Joel
Kullberg5, Nils Paaske6, Anne-Lise Schierup6,
Erik M. Pedersen7, Malcolm J. Avison, 28
1Department
of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN,
United States; 2Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, TN, United States; 3Chemical and Physical
Biology Program, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States; 4Philips
Healthcare, Stockholm, Sweden; 5Department of Radiology, Uppsala
University, Uppsala, Sweden; 6X-tend ApS, Hornslet, Denmark; 7Department
of Radiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark; 8Department
of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
This research demonstrates the feasibility for accelerated acquisitions of whole-body (WB) multiple fast field echo protocols on a 3 Tesla scanner for fat-water MRI with a custom tabletop that allows a single 16-channel surface coil array to be used at every table position in a multiple station data collection strategy. The acceleration afforded by the strategy enables the collection of a high number of echoes in a reasonable acquisition time. The additional echoes enable WB quantitative fat-fraction mapping including R2* estimation.