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Abstract #0685

Technical Feasibility of Two-Component T2* Mapping on Cartilages in Human Knee with 54-TE Acquisitions

Yongxian Qian1, Jinbai Huang1, Vincent K. Lee1, Fernando Emilio Boada2

1Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; 2Radiology, New York University, New York, NY, United States

A major challenge to two-component T2* mapping on cartilages in human knee at pixel level is the instability of mapping for the short-T2* component due to insufficient signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) available in clinical setting. A large number of TE acquisitions was proposed in this work to mitigate the demanding of high SNR and stabilize the mapping of short-T2* relaxation. The technical feasibility of this idea was successfully tested in this study.

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