Abstract #2648
High Resolution Multi-slice Myocardial T 2 Mapping with Improved Scan Time Efficiency
Jihye Jang 1,2 , Cory Tschabrunn 1 , Elad Anter 1 , Tamer Basha 1 , and Reza Nezafat 1
1
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United
States,
2
Computer
Aided Medical Procedures, Technische Universitt
Mnchen, Munich, Bayern, Germany
Quantitative T
2
mapping
allows non-invasive assessment of myocardial
inflammation/edema. In T
2
mapping
sequences, rest-cycles are needed between different T
2
weighted
images to allow full magnetization recovery, which
results in reduced scan time efficiency. In such
sequence, multi-segment acquisition is difficult to be
employed due to the long scan time. Recently,
free-breathing multi-slice myocardial T
2
mapping
sequence was proposed to increase scan time efficiency
by combining a slice-selective T
2
prep pulse
and interleaved slice acquisition. In this study, we
sought to further extend the multi-slice T
2
mapping
sequence to allow segmented acquisition to achieve
higher in-plane spatial resolution within acceptable
scan time.
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