Abstract #1627

Dual-echo 3D-MERGE with Adiabatic Flow Suppression for Large-coverage Carotid Vessel Wall Imaging

Zechen Zhou¹, Niranjan Balu², Holger Eggers³, Peter Börnert³, Thomas S. Hatsukami², and Chun Yuan²

¹Philips Research North America, Cambridge, MA, United States, ²Vascular Imaging Lab, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, ³Philips Research Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

In this work, a dual-echo 3D-MERGE with adiabatic flow suppression was developed to improve the image quality of large-coverage carotid vessel wall imaging (VWI). The initial experiments on plaque specimen and healthy volunteers have demonstrated its potential for plaque component analysis and feasibility to achieve isotropic 0.8mm VWI with improved fat/flow suppression and additional quantitative fat fraction/field maps by using this ~4min large-coverage scan.

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