Abstract #0941
Selective Musculoskeletal MRI Using ZTE Imaging with Long-T2 Suppression
Markus Weiger 1 , Mingming Wu 1,2 , Moritz Christoph Wurnig 3 , David Kenkel 3 , Andreas Boss 3 , Gustav Andreisek 3 , and Klaas Paul Pruessmann 1
1
Institute for Biomedical Engineering,
University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland,
2
Institute
of Biomedical Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany,
3
Institute
for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University
Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Zero echo time (ZTE) imaging enables direct MRI of
tissues with rapid relaxation, such as e.g. bone,
tendons, or ligaments. Yet the feature of detecting
signals from a wide T2 range is accompanied by a lack of
contrast between the corresponding tissues. Therefore,
in this work, efficient long-T2 suppression is developed
for the ZTE technique. In this way, selective, direct
musculoskeletal MRI akin to CT contrast is enabled and
demonstrated in a tissue sample.
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