Dingxin Wang1,
2, Joseph Vu2, Essa S. Yacoub2, Kamil Ugurbil2,
Vibhas Deshpande3
1Siemens
Medical Solution USA, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, United States; 2Center
for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN,
United States; 3Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Austin, TX,
United States
Our study demonstrates the feasibility of using slice accelerated SE sequence for acquiring high resolution T2-weighted images with whole brain coverage (72 slices, 2mm thickness). The slice acceleration and SAR reduction are the keys to enable increased coverage of the T2-weighted image acquisition within a reasonable time (8 minutes).