Abstract #2507

Simultaneous Fat Saturation and Magnetization Transfer Preparation with 2D Small-Tip Fast Recovery Imaging

Feng Zhao¹, Scott D. Swanson², Jon-Fredrik Nielsen¹, Jeffrey A. Fessler³, Douglas C. Noll¹

¹Biomedical Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States; ²Radiology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States; ³EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

We propose to do simultaneous fat saturation and magnetization transfer (MT) preparation with small-tip fast recovery imaging (STFR) which produces high SNR bSSFP-like images free of banding artifacts. This sequence requires much less SAR for MT preparation due to its much higher sensitivity to MT effect than regular non-steady-state MT sequence.