Feng Zhao1, Scott
D. Swanson2, Jon-Fredrik Nielsen1, Jeffrey A. Fessler3,
Douglas C. Noll1
1Biomedical
Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States; 2Radiology,
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States; 3EECS,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
We propose to do simultaneous fat saturation and magnetization transfer (MT) preparation with small-tip fast recovery imaging (STFR) which produces high SNR bSSFP-like images free of banding artifacts. This sequence requires much less SAR for MT preparation due to its much higher sensitivity to MT effect than regular non-steady-state MT sequence.