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Abstract #2403

Balanced SSFP-Like Imaging with Simultaneous Water-Fat Separation and Band Reduction Using Small-Tip Fast Recovery

Feng Zhao1, Hao Sun2, Jon-Fredrik Nielsen1, Jeffrey A. Fessler3, Douglas C. Noll1

1Biomedical Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States; 2EECS, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States; 3EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

We propose to use a bSSFP-like imaging sequence, referred to as Small-tip Fast Recovery imaging (STFR), to simultaneously suppress banding artifacts and separate water/fat. This method works for both small and large tip angles, which is advantageous over a recently proposed bSSFP-based fat suppression method called LAMA.

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