Abstract #0300

A comprehensive multi-shot EPI protocol for high-quality clinical brain imaging in 3 minutes

John Conklin¹, Bryan Clifford², Steffen Bollmann², Wei-Ching Lo², Berkin Bilgic³, Stephen Cauley³, Kawin Setsompop³, Thorsten Feiweier⁴, John Kirsch³, R. Gilberto Gonzalez³, Pamela Schaefer³, Otto Rapalino³, and Susie Huang³

¹Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States, ²Siemens Medical Solutions, Boston, MA, United States, ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States, ⁴Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, Germany

A comprehensive 3 minute whole-brain MRI exam based on multi-shot echoplanar imaging (ms-EPI) was optimized and evaluated in 5 patients with different clinical pathologies. This approach minimizes artifacts associated with single-shot echoplanar imaging, and provides image quality similar to that of a 10-minute clinical reference protocol based on turbo spin-echo imaging.

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