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Abstract #2378

Can Flow Be Measured with a Flow-Compensated Sequence?

Bo Xu1, Pascal Spincemaille2, Tian Liu2, Yi Wang1

1Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States; 2Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, United States

A new flow quantification measured is proposed. Multi-echo gradient echo sequence is used for data acquisition. Polynomial fit of multi-echo phase data is used to extract field inhomogeneity information. Coefficient of the fit is directly related to flow velocity. Thus by changing the background field inhomogeneity, flow could be quantified. This method is validated in phantom and in vivo experiments.

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