Abstract #3111

Initial experience of imaging stroke patients with a 5-minute whole head multi-echo GRE acquisition

Junmin Liu¹, Luciano Sposato², Spencer D Christiansen^1,3, and Maria Drangova^1,3

¹Imaging Research Laboratories, Robarts Research Institute, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, London, ON, Canada, ²Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, London, ON, Canada, ³Department of Medical Physics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, London, ON, Canada

We report on our initial experience of imaging stroke patients using a technique that achieves quantification of fat fraction (FF), QSM, and R2* simultaneously from a single multi-echo GRE (mGRE) acquisition. We collected 3T data from three stroke patients with a ~ 30-minute whole head multi-sequence protocol. By performing the joint analysis of TOF MRA, DWI, FLAIR and mGRE, we evaluated the capability of using the mGRE-based maps and images to characterize thrombus, differentiate intracranial calcifications from hemorrhages and detect white-matter lesions. Our initial results have shown the feasibility of using the mGRE technique to image stroke patients.

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