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Abstract #2445

Highly Accelerated MR Elastography

John C. Bosshard1, Steven M. Wright1

1Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States

Highly parallel imaging with a 64 channel receive array in a "sandwich" configuration was used to capture MR elastography images of an emerging mechanical wave at 156 x 125 &[mu]m resolution. The same system was also used to perform simultaneous single echo acquisition imaging at the top and bottom boundaries of the sample using a non-linear gradient coil for compensation of RF coil phase. This method may have applications in microscopic MRE or for monitoring of elastic properties during single-shot events.

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