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Abstract #4168

Simultaneous Fat-Water Separated Imaging Using Dual Spatial-Spectral RF Pulses

Cheng-Chieh Cheng1, 2, Hing-Chiu Chang1, Lawrence Panych2, Chun-Jung Juan3, Tzu-Cheng Chao4, Hsiao-Wen Chung1

1Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; 2Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States; 3Department of Radiology, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; 4Institute of Medical Informatics, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Spatial-Spectral RF pulses have been widely adopted for many purposes, especially in the situation when fat-suppression is necessary. In this study, we utilized this idea to simultaneously generate fat-water separated imaging. For comparison, images with fat/water suppression were acquired using a conventional FLASH sequence. Our results showed these simultaneously acquired images have comparable contrast to the FLASH images. Consequently, our proposed method may be beneficial for studies that require dynamic information of both water and fat.

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