It remains challenging to achieve simultaneous high spatial isotropic resolution and high temporal resolution in dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) MRI of small animals, due to the relatively low signal to noise ratio (SNR) from small voxels. The purpose of this study is to develop a highly accelerated, high-spatial and high-temporal resolution DCE-MRI method for small animal imaging at 7T using 3D ultrashort echo time (UTE) golden-angle radial sampling with a combined compressed sensing and parallel imaging approach based on the GRASP technique. Our preliminary results demonstrate that the proposed UTE-GRASP method has the potential to improve both spatial and temporal resolution.
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