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Abstract #2404

Better Fat Saturation Employing DRFS

Xiaocheng Wei1, Yongchuan Lai1, Weiwei Zhang1

1GE Healthcare, Beijing, China

The traditional chemical shift selective (CHESS) radiofrequency pulse is often ineffective in suppressing lipid within a large field of view (FOV) due to the presence of B0 inhomogeneity. In this abstract, we propose a new method to suppress lipid signal, Dual-Region Fat Saturation (DRFS). DRFS divides a scan region into multiple sub-regions, in which the shimming could then be applied independently. Volunteer results show that compared with CHESS, DRFS could achieve better and uniform fat suppression across entire FOV, which enable DRFS a much broader application.

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