An interleaved sequence for simultaneous magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), susceptibility weighted imaging (SWI) and quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM)

To image the entire vasculature of the brain with complete suppression of signal from background tissue using a single 3D excitation interleaved rephased/dephased multi-echo gradient echo sequence. This ensures no loss of signal from fast flow and provides co-registered susceptibility weighted images (SWI) and quantitative susceptibility maps (QSM) from the same scan.

http://www.mrijournal.com/article/S0730-725X(17)30257-6/fulltext?rss=yes

Source: Magnetic Resonance Imaging - November 14, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Yongsheng Chen, Saifeng Liu, Sagar Buch, Jiani Hu, Yan Kang, E. Mark Haacke Tags: Technical note Source Type: research