Leah C. Henze Bancroft1,
Larry Hernandez2, Habib Al Saleh2, Kevin M. Johnson2,
Richard Kijowski3, Walter F. Block4
1Biomedical
Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, United States; 2Medical
Physics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, United States; 3Radiology,
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, United States; 4Biomedical
Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Effective cartilage imaging and whole organ joint assessment requires both high isotropic resolution and fat suppression or separation. bSSFP imaging provides high intrinsic signal strength but TR constraints limit the achievable resolution. Presented here is an approach where a standard bSSFP has been implemented with using the previously developed 3D radial out and back VIPR trajectory modified to create 4 echo times for an IDEAL implementation . Here we demonstrate the high performance capabilities of this method at 3T with high resolution, 3D, T2 weighted knee imaging.