Abstract #4273

Single Acquisition Fat Water Separation Using a Golden Ratio Radial BSSFP Sequence with Dynamic Echotime Shifting

Thomas Benkert¹, Riad Ababneh², Martin Blaimer¹, Peter M. Jakob¹,³, Felix A. Breuer¹

¹Research Center Magnetic Resonance Bavaria, Wrzburg, Bavaria, Germany; ²Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan; ³Experimental Physics 5, University Wrzburg, Wrzburg, Bavaria, Germany

To achieve fat water separation out of just one single acquisition, we propose a golden ratio radial bSSFP sequence. The echotime of each radial projection is shifted dynamically, allowing to extract images with different echotimes by using a k-space weighted image contrast (KWIC) filter.