Abstract #3400
High contrast-to-noise ratio brain structural images using magnetization preparation and trueFISP acquisition
Yi-Cheng Hsu 1 , Ying-Hua Chu 1 , Shang-Yueh Tsai 2 , Wen-Jui Kuo 3 , and Fa-Hsuan Lin 1
1
Institute of Biomedical Engineering,
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan,
2
Institute
of Applied Physic, National Chengchi University, Taipei,
Taiwan,
3
Institute of Neuroscience, National
Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
A MP trueFISP sequence for brain structural imaging was
implemented and tested. Compared with MP RAGE using the
same acquisition time, it improves the contrast from 40%
to 80% with 37.8% noise increase due to a wider readout
bandwidth.
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