Abstract #0349

Benefits and Challenges of Spiral MRI in Routine Clinical Brain Imaging: Early Results

Melvyn B Ooi¹, Zhiqiang Li², Dinghui Wang², Ryan K Robison³, Nick R Zwart², Ashley G Anderson¹, Akshay Bakhru⁴, Tanya Mathews⁴, Suthambhara Nagaraj⁴, Silke Hey⁵, Jos Koonen⁵, Ad Moerland⁵, Jonathan Chia¹, Ivan Dimitrov¹, Harry Friel¹, Makoto Obara⁶, Indrajit Saha⁷, Yi Wang¹, Yansong Zhao¹, Harry H Hu⁸, Amber Pokorney³, Marco Pinho⁹, Osamu Togao¹⁰, Tom Chenevert¹¹, Ashok Srinivasan¹¹, Juan E Small¹², Mara M Kunst¹², Rakesh Kumar Gupta¹³, Jalal B Andre¹⁴, Nandor K Pinter¹⁵, Jeffrey H Miller³, and James G Pipe²

¹Philips Healthcare, Gainesville, FL, United States, ²Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, United States, ³Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Phoenix, AZ, United States, ⁴Philips Innovation Campus, Bangalore, India, ⁵Philips Healthcare, Best, Netherlands, ⁶Philips Healthcare, Tokyo, Japan, ⁷Philips Healthcare, Gurgaon, India, ⁸Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH, United States, ⁹University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States, ¹⁰Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan, ¹¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, ¹²Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington, MA, United States, ¹³Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon, India, ¹⁴University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, ¹⁵Dent Neurologic Institute, Amherst, NY, United States

Spiral MRI possesses several advantages vs. Cartesian MRI, due to differences in their k-space trajectories and underlying MR physics, which can be leveraged for added value in routine clinical imaging. A Spiral Neuroimaging Cooperative, consisting of nine clinical sites, was formed for the multi-center evaluation of spiral MRI as an alternative to Cartesian MRI in routine clinical imaging. Post-contrast brain spiral 2DT1SE were compared with Cartesian 2DT1SE or TSE. Spirals demonstrated faster scanning with consistent flow artifact reduction vs. both Cartesian options, and superior overall image quality (T1 contrast, lesion visualization) vs. TSE.

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