Abstract #4248

Optimization of the Flow Encoding Pattern under Consideration of Spatio-Temporal Velocity Gradients in flow-MR Fingerprinting

Sebastian Flassbeck¹, Simon Schmidt¹, Mark E. Ladd¹, and Sebastian Schmitter^1,2

¹Medical Physics in Radiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, ²Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig and Berlin, Germany

It has been shown that the quantification of blood flow velocities through the use of bipolar gradients is possible within the MRF framework, called flow-MRF. In this work, we investigate four different flow encoding patterns for flow-MRF and analyze their impact on flow quantification. Finally we present an optimized pattern.

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